√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1500-1599 'after, I reed of the Bible, and spock of Certaine Chapters to Mrs Ormston and John douson' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'I went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the English papers. There were a good many members assembled to do the same thing, it is of course quite the thing that there sho... John Buckley Castieau [n/a] [unknown - newspaper] Print : Newspaper1500-1599 'then I did read a while to my workwemen, and then to the Lector' Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew's interview with a seller of street stationery:
'I read "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper" on a Sunday, and what murders and robberies there is now!' [n/a] Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper Print : Newspaper1800-1849 William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former grocer on his first day in the new job: 'At Lancaster I... [a grocer] Anon William Wordsworth [poems] Unknown Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how she and her brother William received a letter from him: "Yesterday morning my brother and I walked to Rydale, and he... William and Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas De Quincey letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how John Wordsworth received a letter from him:
"When your Friend Johnny came from school last night, his mother sai... Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas De Quincey Letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read
more o... John Wilson Croker Alexander Pope Print : BookHenry Mayhew's interview with an orphan flower girl and her sister:
"'We've always had good health. We can all read'. [Here the three somewhat insisted
upon proving to... anon Garden of Heaven Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper:
"The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my family's dinner to the bakehouse, bring it home after ch... anon [n/a] Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper Print : Broadsheet, Newspaper1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley Vittorio Alfieri [Tragedies] Print : Book1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley Theocritus [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley Herodotus [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley James MacPherson The Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, translated... Print : Book1700-1799 Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly Juvenal'... William Wordsworth Juvenal Satire X Unknown 1700-1799 William Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838:
'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly... Francis Wrangham Juvenal Satire X Unknown 1800-1849 John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read
more o... John Wilson Croker John Dryden Print : Book1800-1849 John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read
more o... John Wilson Croker Walter Scott Print : Book1500-1599 'then I walked, and took a Lector, and read tell Lector time: then I hard that, and so went to supper: ... and, after, reed a whill, and so went to bed' Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849
William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808:
'... I find, among the people I am speaking o... William Wordsworth anon [working people] ["half-penny Ballads"] Print : Book1800-1849 William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808:
' ... I find, among the people I am speaking of, ... William Wordsworth ["penny and two-penny histories"] Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Grace Norton, 7 November 1880: ' ... please tell Charles [Norton] I am to write to him in a day or two to thank him for his own beautiful volume which I ha... Henry James Charles Eliot Norton Historical Studies of Church Building in the Middl... Print : Book1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth, on visit to Catherine Clarkson at Bury St Edmunds, to William Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, 14 August 1810: 'In the afternoon we looked over half th... Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Print : Book1900-1945 [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact.... Alice Foley Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hiawatha Print : Book1900-1945 [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact.... Alice Foley John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' Print : Book1900-1945 [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact.... Alice Foley John Keats 'The Eve of St Agnes' Print : Book1900-1945 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st... Chaim Lewis George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Print : Book1850-1899 'At tea time however I came down stairs & after reading a while went into the office & attended to some duty' John Buckley Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1500-1599 'then I medetated of the sarmons, and read and spoke to Mrs Ormstone of the Chapter that was read in the morning' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1800-1849 John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read
more o... John Wilson Croker George Gordon, Lord Byron Print : Book1850-1899 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers' John Buckley Castieau [n/a] [unknown - newspaper] Print : Newspaper1500-1599 'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, Read a Longe Letter and wret an other' Margaret Hoby [unknown] [letter] Manuscript : Letter1500-1599 'after, hard Euerill Read, and then praied, so went to supper' Euerill Aske [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 September 1816:
'I have read with great pleasure the poem you lent me [Childe Harold III]. It is written with
great vigour, and... John Wilson Croker George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold III Unknown 1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have been reading Eheu fugaces & your translation this moment together. the three last stanzas are certai... Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles Bedford Translation of Horace, Odes, 2:14 Manuscript : Sheet1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4 December 1792: 'I have already said too much. I have an old poem of the heroic class before me. Pharonnida — one of the Can... Robert Southey William Chamberlayne Pharonnida, a Heroick Poem Print : Book1850-1899 ?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the time of Edward I by F. W. Maitland? It is a wonderf... Leslie Stephen F. W. Maitland History of English Law Print : Book1800-1849 Statement of juvenile offender:
"I thought this 'Jack Sheppard' was a clever fellow for making his escape and robbing his master. If I could get out of gaol I think I ... J.L. William Harrison Ainsworth Jack Sheppard Print : Book1800-1849 Statement of juvenile offender:
"When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportunities of reading then, voyages and such; read the Lif... J.H. [unknown] [books about voyages] Print : Book1800-1849 Statement about juvenile offender:
"attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school three years (same time). Learned to read and write. Ca... J.S. [story books] Print : Book1850-1899 'Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new' John Buckley Castieau [n/a] Ovens and Murray Advertiser Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the... John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace Thackeray The Newcomes Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-17 November 1792: 'I send the epitaph which at present is inscribed upon one of the cankerd sides. Perhaps the production ... Robert Southey Tombstone epitaph Print : tomb1700-1799 Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, 28 October 1792: 'If the Baron of Thundertentroncks castle had not been destroyd (said Dr Pangloss to Candidus) if Miss Cunegonda ... Robert Southey Voltaire Candide, ou l'Optimisme Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Some poems have been lately printed here by the Revd. E Holder written between the age of 17 & 20. I only ... Robert Southey Henry Evans Holder Miscellaneous Poems Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, 28 October 1792: '"Ille & nefasto te posuit die,/
Quicumque primum, & sacrilega manu/
Produxit, arbos, in nepotum/
Perniciem." ... Robert Southey Horace Odes, 2:13 Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that Bristol seems preparing for it. A pamphlet propose... Robert Southey Tom Paine The Rights of Man. Part the Second Print : Pamphlet1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that Bristol seems preparing for it. A pamphlet propose... Robert Southey The Reply of the Delegates of the Several Parishes... Print : Pamphlet1700-1799 Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I could make no progress — perhaps disgust at the dry st... Robert Southey Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1500-1599 'After priuat praier and breakfast I did read a whill for beinge not well, partly through myne owne folly' Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined
alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord Byron's new poem whch is not destitute of
merit... Margaret Beaumont George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II Print : Book1900-1945 '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a... [n/a] The Daily Chronicle Print : Newspaper1900-1945 '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a... Lloyd's Weekly News Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Wu notes extracts from vol 1 of Volney, "Travels Through Syria and Egypt", in Dove Cottage MS 28.
Wordsworth Family Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de Volney Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers.' John Buckley Castieau [n/a] [unknown - newspaper] Print : Newspaper1500-1599 'and then I read of the book of marters and so went to bed' Margaret Hoby John Foxe Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an... Print : Book1500-1599 'and, sonne after, when I had reed of the Bible, I dined' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'then I hard Mrs Brutnell Read of the Herball tell supper time' Mrs Brutnell William Turner New herball Print : Book1700-1799 Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has been tolerably extensive in the historical department,... George Gordon Lord Byron Herodotus unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has been tolerably extensive in the historical department,... George Gordon Lord Byron Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1850-1899 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribbage with Dotty' John Buckley Castieau [n/a] [unknown - newspaper] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents'
on Ireland:
'The little volume called "A Sketch of Irish History" is a m... Robert Peel 'a priest at Longford' letter to parishioner Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribbage with Dotty' John Buckley Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1850-1899 ?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been Johnson?s brother? I cannot be simply eulogistic if the ... Leslie Stephen James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson Print : Book1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for shoplifting:
Mary Bennett: "I am the prosector's wife. I was in the shop ...I was sitting reading
the newspaper, and the first thing I... Mary Bennett Print : Newspaper1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley Thucydides [probably History of the Peloponnesian War] Print : Book1800-1849 'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriler ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas"... Frederick Rogers [Bible] Print : Book1800-1849 'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas... Frederick Rogers John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas... Frederick Rogers Alexandre Dumas Print : Book1800-1849 Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents'
on Ireland:
'The little volume called "A Sketch of Irish History" is a m... Robert Peel 'a member of the Ursuline Community at Ash' A Sketch of Irish History Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1812, including Granville Penn, "The Bioscope, or Dia... George Gordon Lord Byron anon Manuscript : Unknown1500-1599 'after the sarmon, I walked, and read and talked with Mrs Ormston of that was deliuered' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible? Print : Book1500-1599 'After priuat prairs I did eate my breakfast, and then I did read of the Testament, and so went to church' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'and then reed of Bright of Mallincocolie, and then went to supper' Margaret Hoby Timothy Bright A treatise of melancholie, containing the causes t... Print : Book1500-1599 'after, I did breake my fast, then I went about the house and, after, read of the bible' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to dimer' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'after, I walked a while, and read of Babington, and then went to supper' Margaret Hoby Gervase Babington [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: occasional marginal marks, numbers and comments throughout text, with further brief notes referring to text on 5 binding pages. Combination of ink and faded... H. Wansey Venerable Bede Ecclesiastical history of the English Nation, from... Print : Book1900-1945 '"The Syonan Times" says that M. Egle, the Red Cross representative, entertained to dinner by the Nipponese in Shanghi, said, "Your kindness (to the prisoners-of-war) has... Thomas Kitching [n/a] Syonan Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 '"The Syonan Times" says that the Raffles statue is being moved to a museum.' Thomas Kitching [n/a] Syonan Times Print : Newspaper1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place David Hume [Hume's Essays] Print : BookIn Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, by a strange, but able, old man (Sir E[gerton] B[ryd... George Gordon Lord Byron Sir Egerton Brydges The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, criti... Print : BookIn Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webster] ... **** [Lady Frances]'s contained also a very ... George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster letter with poem Manuscript : LetterIn Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with himself and other contemporary authors also discussed]... George Gordon Lord Byron Various The Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodicalIn Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: "The greatest pleasure I ever derived, ... George Gordon Lord Byron George Frederick Cooke Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the The... Print : BookIn Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: "The greatest pleasure I ever derived, ... George Frederick Cooke George Gordon Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers Print : BookIn extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: "Read English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, by Lord Byron. It is well wr... George Frederick Cooke George Gordon Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment f... John Galt Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) [letter on the punishment for adultery in Turkey] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt]
Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment... Henry Richard Fox Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment f... Matthew Gregory Lewis Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) [letter on punishment for adultery in Turkey] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment f... Thomas Moore Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment f... Samuel Rogers Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment f... Lady Melbourne Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) [letter on the punishment of adultery in Turkey] Manuscript : Letter1700-1799 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ... I cannot be mistaken (except in taste) in a book I ... George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's, of a new Treatise on Timber. Now here is a man mo... George Gordon Lord Byron Lord Glenbervie Prospectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie... Print : Advertisement1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd that when I do read, I can only bear the chicken brot... George Gordon Lord Byron Matthew Gregory Lewis The Monk Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the papers and tea-ed and soda-watered ... ' George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to leave town to-morrow.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** [Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster].' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [Italian] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the battle of Buonaparte, the destruction of the Custom Ho... George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning Post Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, and letters, and am alone ... ' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into the fire. Redde - but to little purpose.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.' George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Christoph von Schiller The Robbers Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'As [Richard] Sharpe was passing by the doors of some Debating Society (the Westminster Forum), in his wa... Richard Sharp unknown [poster advertising a debate on Byron and Scott] Print : Advertisement, Poster1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and told Murray to publish it if he liked. The object of t... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown Anti-Byron Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by that most entertaining and researching writer, Israel... George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac Disraeli Quarrels of Authors Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.' George Gordon Lord Byron Jean Chardin unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.' George Gordon Lord Byron Leonard Simonde de Sismondi unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.' George Gordon Lord Byron Matteo Bandello unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out. In the beginning of the article on 'Edgeworth's Patronage,' I h... George Gordon Lord Byron The Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napoleon Buonaparte - copied it - eaten six biscuits - d... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written a very noble poem ... your measure is uncommonly wel... George Gordon Lord Byron John Herman Merivale Orlando in Roncesvalles Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lord Ellenborough!!! from which I infer near & dear re... George Gordon Lord Byron Maria Edgeworth Patronage Print : Book1800-1849 Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been discussion in ye. Courier & I read in ye. Mo[rning] Po... George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning Chronicle Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been discussion in ye. Courier & I read in ye. Mo[rning] Po... George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning Post Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the best "Session" we have ... ' George Gordon Lord Byron Leigh Hunt The Feast of the Poets Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampoons and other merry conceits on myself in the minist... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [ministerial gazettes] Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is one sentence I do not understand ... I will copy it... George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke [letter] Manuscript : Letter1700-1799 I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla... Francis Place William Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England Print : Book1700-1799 The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy... Francis Place David Hume [Essays and Treatises] Print : Book1700-1799 The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy... Francis Place Adam Smith Wealth of Nations Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked into the tract o... George Gordon Lord Byron John Locke unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isa... George Gordon Lord Byron The Book of Job Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isa... George Gordon Lord Byron The Book of Isaiah Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isa... George Gordon Lord Byron The Book of Deborah Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well written (both prose and verse) & ... containing noth... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown Anti-Byron Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb's attempt to stab herself at a p... George Gordon Lord Byron Frances Burney The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says -- "Scott and Campbell won't like" kind Soul!' George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Jeffrey review of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of Abyd... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... ' George Gordon Lord Byron advertisement for William Sotheby, Five Tragedies ... Print : Advertisement1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at your Author but it is a noble poem ... I suppose I ma... George Gordon Lord Byron Stratford Canning Bonaparte Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a foreboding -- and remember when quite a child reading th... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [Roman History] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure You that I perfectly coincide with your judges in t... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends that I have every reason to be satisfied. -- You best... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [article] Unknown Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know when -- I like it as much as I hate Patronage and Wa... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Waverley Print : Book1800-1849 Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appears to me that I must have said something which makes... George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke [letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to postpone publication till my return to town.' George Gordon Lord Byron John Murray [advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers... Print : AdvertisementManuscript : LetterByron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The poem from which you have done me the honour to enlo... George Gordon Lord Byron Robert Charles Dallas [?] [poem] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814:
'the best thing of that kind I met with by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in an... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [history book] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in Germany (Bavaria I think) which I saw last year -- ... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Campbell Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria Print : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to fish for lack of other argument ...' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron in letter to Annabella Milbanke of 7 September 1814 praises Richard Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis (alluded to by Milbanke in a previous letter) but notes th... George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Porson Letters to Archdeacon Travis Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepted: 'Books I have but few here, and those I have read... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814:
'I believe I told you of Larry and Jacquy [ie Lara and Jacqueline, poems by Byron and Samuel Rogers respectively, published to... George Gordon Lord Byron Lara; Jacqueline Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sitting near me and grew frightened at the effect of it... George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke [letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said that to me (the decisive one ) [ie accepting his mar... Augusta Leigh Annabella Milbanke [letter to Byron] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the contradiction of a paragraph copied from the Durham p... George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning Chronicle Print : NewspaperManuscript : LetterByron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, alluded to by her in letter to him] -- it is just to yo... George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper] Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me -- read it again ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke [letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter solitude of my situation with only my Maccaw to conv... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in one of his amatory epistles compared himself to Chi... George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning Chronicle Print : NewspaperUnknown1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must not leave off reviewing. You shine in it ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore article on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writing... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...' George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam Hobhouse [packet] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 'trying to read old Annual Registers and the daily pap... George Gordon Lord Byron The Annual Register Print : Serial / periodicalActivities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 'trying to read old Annual Registers and the daily pap... George Gordon Lord Byron [daily newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Hanson, 11 July 1815: 'Dear Sir -- I have called about my Will -- which I hope is nearly ready. -- I also wish to have the robe and sword sent up to my hous... George Gordon Lord Byron Byron family pedigree Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced from the perusal, made me anxious for the immediate... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in the Canto which I have just finished ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Leigh Hunt The Story of Rimini (Canto 3) Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 for the most part reading histories, and such books of controversies as the tymes gave occastion for writing John Bramston various unknown [histories] Print : Book1700-1799 "The habits and tastes of Mr Opie were, happily, very inexpensive... [he and his wife] spent the evening hours in converse ... reading with her books of amusement or inst... John Opie [various books, fiction in particular] Print : Book1900-1945 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ... Wil John Edwards George Meredith Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly -- I redde it and agree with the writer on one point .... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [paper on the Methodists] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S... George Gordon Lord Byron Charles Robert Maturin Bertram Manuscript : UnknownByron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S... George Lamb Charles Robert Maturin Bertram Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mrs. Leigh -- with much surprize and more sorrow.' George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Byron [letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... were in fixed perusal & delight with it ...' Augusta Leigh Leigh Hunt The Story of Rimini Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have almost got him by heart. I had read his "Animali Parla... George Gordon Lord Byron Giambattista Casti Novelle Amorose Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have almost got him by heart. I had read his "Animali Parla... George Gordon Lord Byron Giambattista Casti Animali Parlante Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am struck to a degree with the force and accuracy of hs des... George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques Rousseau Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1816, on advertisement falsely ascribing authorship of various poems to him: 'I enclose you an advertisement -- which was copied by Dr. P[ol... John Polidori advertisement for publications Print : Advertisement1800-1849 Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Caroline Lamb Glenarvon Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Benjamin Constant Adolphe Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remember reading his memoirs in January 1815 (at Halnaby --... George Gordon Lord Byron Edmund Ludlow memoirs Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- long inscription -- Latin -- but simple -- particula... George Gordon Lord Byron Margaret de Thomas epitaph to Edmund Ludlow Manuscript : tombstone epitaph1800-1849 Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly ... John Cole The European Print : Serial / periodical, Magazine1800-1849 Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed ... women gabbling below -- read a French translati... George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Christoph von Schiller unknown Unknown 1800-1849 After tea procured 'The Hull Advertiser' and looked over the Advertisement of a Bookselling & Stationary Business to be disposed of at Scarborough. John Cole The Hull Advertiser Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murdered the other ...' George Gordon Lord Byron anon [inscription on rock] Manuscript : inscriptionUnknown1800-1849 'Murray had written to Byron on September 12 [1816] that he had carried the manuscript of the third canto of Childe Harold to [William] Gifford [his literary advisor]... ... William Gifford George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu... George Gordon Lord Byron anon review of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und W... Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole Samuel Johnson Rasselas Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu... George Gordon Lord Byron James Wedderburn Webster Waterloo and Other Poems Manuscript : UnknownUnknown1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu... George Gordon Lord Byron H. Gally Knight Ilderim: A Syrian Tale Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu... George Gordon Lord Byron The Pamphleteer Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a ... John Cole William Shakespeare Hamlet Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Augusta Leigh, 15 October 1816, from Milan: 'What has delighted me most is a manuscript collection (preserved in the Ambrosian library), of original love-letters... George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucretia de Borgia [unknown] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the correspondence ... of Lucretia Borgia wth Cardinal Bembo ... I ... George Gordon Lord Byron Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de Borgia letters Manuscript : Letter, Unknown1850-1899 'Read "George [Gaith?]" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock' John Buckley Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Sister of Charlemagne -- as I read the other day in a boo... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown "book treating of the Rhine" Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to me to read from Copet last autumn. It seems to me ... George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Caroline Lamb Glenarvon Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the adv... George Gordon Lord Byron ["the Italian version of the French papers"] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'". Agnes Blanche Hemming George MacDonald Alec Forbes of Howglen Print : BookByron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the adv... George Gordon Lord Byron Quarterly Review Print : Advertisement, Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webster ... Amongst the ingredients of this volume I was ... George Gordon, Lord Byron James Wedderburn Webster Waterloo and Other Poems Print : Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical1700-1799 [Marginalia]: pp.31-61 are heavily annotated - the only clue to the identity of the annotator is in the ink - it is the colour used by Will. Baillie (see section 1.5). T... Will Baillie Leonardo Da Vinci A Treatise of Painting Print : Book1800-1849 This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in the last Edinr review. His reasoning (so they call ... Thomas Carlyle Dr Chalmers Title unknown Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ... flatter myself that the writer ... will not regret ... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Review of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The P... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta, which she copied and let Murray see.' Augusta Leigh George Gordon Lord Byron travel journal Manuscript : Codex1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta, which she copied and let Murray see.' John Murray George Gordon Lord Byron travel journal Manuscript : Codex1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 volumes -- whom I have been reading -- he is delightful... George Gordon Lord Byron Voltaire Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between St. Paul and the Corinthians, not to be found in ou... George Gordon Lord Byron St. Paul Epistles to Corinthians Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you. I do hope you like his poetry almost as much as he likes yours. I keep a vol. of his a... Harriet Martineau R.M. Milnes Print : BookByron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, [?April 1817]: 'Sir, In your Journal of 27th... George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper] Print : NewspaperUnknown1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the staircase on which he was beheaded at the Doge's Palac... George Gordon Lord Byron Johan Christoph von Schiller Geisterseher Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glenarvon" ... the other a review of C[hilde] Har[ol]d i... George Gordon Lord Byron reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Ch... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for a book which I have not yet received -- but expect t... George Gordon Lord Byron Lord Holland Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Feli... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety years old -- a Swiss -- had it read to him & is ple... John Andre de Luc George Gordon Lord Byron The Prisoner of Chillon Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety years old -- a Swiss -- had it read to him & is ple... George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extreme inaccuracy ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Voltaire unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Tales of my Landlord Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extract I have seen please me very much indeed ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Lallah Rookh Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They are taken from some magazine, and contain a short outl... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Lallah Rookh (extracts) Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes th... Matthew Gregory Lewis Thomas Moore Lallah Rookh (extracts) Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes th... Matthew Gregory Lewis Charles Robert Maturin Manuel Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I ride about -- & lounge -- & ponder & -- two or thre... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Lallah Rookh Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone ... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore [poems] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone ... George Gordon Lord Byron Alexander Pope [poems] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone ... George Gordon Lord Byron George Gordon Lord Byron [poems] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[ane] Theatre - for acting Bertram ... this is not ve... George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'I heard Mr. Lewis translate verbally some scenes of Goethe's Faust ... last Summer ...' Matthew Gregory Lewis Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ... George Gordon Lord Byron Aeschylus Prometheus Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know whether you wished me to retain the copy, but I shall ret... George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Belgrave Hoppner Elegy Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro... Patricia Beer Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading -- pray who may be the Sexagenarian -- whose gossip... George Gordon Lord Byron Rev. William Beloe The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary L... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertained -- it requires to be as far from England as I am ... George Gordon Lord Byron [Reviews] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.' George Gordon Lord Byron [obituary] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...' George Gordon Lord Byron William Stewart Rose The Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely transla... Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, formerly explorer of the Loo-Choo Islands and now ... George Gordon Lord Byron [Italian Gazettes] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --except Rob Roy.' George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Rob Roy Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on Italian literature, actually by Ugo Foscolo] is per... George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam Hobhouse Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Ch... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his review of Hunt [in the Quarterly Review], where he has at... George Gordon Lord Byron Review of Leigh Hunt, Foliage Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byr... George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac Disraeli The Literary Character Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byr... George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac Disraeli The Literary Character Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's newspaper -- & with all the disfiguration & curtailm... George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's newspaper Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "The Vampire" with the a... George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's Messenger Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] "Bertram" at your brother's -- on my exclaiming in the words o... Charles 8th Lord Kinnaird Charles Robert Maturin Bertram Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge of the Subject by a covert Attack or two on Some of ... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Hodgson The Friends: a Poem Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ... George Gordon Lord Byron Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ... George Gordon Lord Byron Count Vittorio Alfieri [marginalia] Manuscript : Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ... Count Vittorio Alfieri Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rather two -- one was
"Martini Luigi
Implora pace... George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a n/a Manuscript : Unknown, tombstone epitaphs1800-1849 Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's Inferno] -- but except her father Guido's tomb -- an... George Gordon Lord Byron Benvenuto da Imola Commentary on Dante, Commedia Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read this book in your garden ... you were absent -- or I co... George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein Corinne Print : Book1800-1849 John Wilson Croker to his wife, 20 July 1815:
'[General] Becker showed us a copy of Buonaparte's letter to the Prince Regent, in which he
says that driven out of hom... John Wilson Croker Napoleon Bonaparte letter to the Prince Regent Manuscript : Unknown, Copied.1900-1945 '[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 Aeschylus Agamemnon Print : Book1850-1899 ?the snow left off a bit after lunch & we strolled out for a walk? so after pounding a mile or two out & home along slushy snow-paths we came home rather disgusted & boug... Leslie Stephen Plato Print : Book1850-1899 'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David Copperfield. His parents punished him when they lea... George Acorn Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1500-1599 When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes... John Carter [n/a] Old Testament Print : Book1500-1599 When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes... John Carter [n/a] New Testament Print : Book1500-1599 For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morning and Evening Sacrifice of Prayer, and praise conti... John Carter [n/a] Scriptures Print : Book1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
'Pastor Fido
... Percy Bysshe Shelley John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An Print : Book1700-1799 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him... Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia Joseph Addison works Print : Book1800-1849 'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, witho... Jane Baillie Welsh Leigh Hunt The Wishing Cap Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have been reading John Racine: it is very standard − damnd[sic] standard, I beg your pardon.[…] I like John Racine, however; the noise is very pleasing and as un... Robert Louis Stevenson Jean Racine unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'There is only one very good thing in the world: the acting of Sarah Bernhardt. I beg your pardon, there is another: Pierre Veron’s "Pantheon de Poche".' Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre Veron Le Pantheon de Poche Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of your note with all due attention ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Countess Teresa Guiccioli [letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott [novels] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott [poems] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hu... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott The Bride of Lammermoor Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hu... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott A Legend of Montrose Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the papers, took place on the dissolution of King and parl... George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsche Gazettes of all which I understand neither word no... George Gordon Lord Byron German periodicals Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis in 1816 at Coligny translated most of it to me viva... Matthew Gregory Lewis Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to order), and I am glad to see my old friends with a Frenc... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Works Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.' George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Poems of the Late Thomas Little Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.' George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Poems of the Late Thomas Little Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of... George Gordon Lord Byron Marino Sanuto "Italian history of the Doges of Venice" Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown "Siege of Zara" Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of... George Gordon Lord Byron Pierre Antoine Daru unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of... George Gordon Lord Byron Jean Charles Sismondi History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Age... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes about "Serventismo" which no foreigner can understa... George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Matthews Diary of an Invalid Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometimes to read one book and sometimes another, a few pag... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [books] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish lady of 37 who has run away with a young Englishman of... George Gordon Lord Byron Gazette Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the proposal of that classical cuckold Perticari ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Count Giulio Perticari Dell'amor patrio di Dante Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 8 August 1820: 'Fletcher reads you in Galignani -- and comes grinning over your speeches to me -- he has already noted Seventeen ...' William Fletcher Galignani's Newspaper Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to Marino Faliero] ... I perceive (horresco referens [V... George Gordon Lord Byron Jane Waldie Sketches Descriptive of Italy Print : Book1500-1599 'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read a whill of the Bible' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquence is better than his company.' George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam Hobhouse [speeches] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean Antoine de Cerceau Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty... Print : Book1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer [Iliad / Odyssey] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...' George Gordon Lord Byron papers Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers mentioned use of copy of Richardson's Pamela by grocer ... George Gordon Lord Byron [poetry] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Rossi [ed. notes that this perhaps... George Gordon Lord Byron Guiseppe Bossi Del Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinion... Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I have read all W. Scott's novels at least fifty times... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Tales of my Landlord (3rd series) Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.' George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.' George Gordon Lord Byron Xenophon Retreat of the Ten Thousand Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- read the "Ten Thousand" again, and will go to bed.' George Gordon Lord Byron Xenophon Retreat of the Ten Thousand Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in which... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Bacon "apophthegms" Manuscript : Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in whiic... William Fletcher Francis Bacon "apophthegms" Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- an... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Bacon "apophthegms" Manuscript : Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- an... George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph Spence Anecdotes Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and... George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.' George Gordon Lord Byron Pierre Louis Ginguene Histoire Litteraire de l'Italie Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.' George Gordon Lord Byron Lord Holland Lope de Vega Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and read Mitford again, and played with my mastiff ...' George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found. Read the 4th. vol. of W. ... George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph Spence Anecdotes Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found. Read the 4th. vol. of W. ... George Gordon Lord Byron William Roscoe The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnific... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series of "Tales of my Landlord".' George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Tales of my Landlord (2nd series) Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what. At 8 went to conversazione.' George Gordon Lord Byron Lugano Gazette Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what. At 8 went to conversazione.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned over and over half a score books for the passage in qu... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [books] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had r... George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had r... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Rob Roy Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes" ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. ... George Gordon Lord Byron accounts Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. ... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Campbell Specimens of the British Poets (including prefator... Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- read. Corrected Tom Campbell's slips of the pen.' George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Campbell Specimens of the British Poets (including prefator... Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets.' George Gordon Lord Byron various Lives of poets Print : BookUnknown1700-1799 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles... George Gordon Lord Byron Alexander Pope unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles... George Gordon Lord Byron John Dryden unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles... George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Johnson unknown 1700-1799 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Gray unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...' George Gordon Lord Byron letters Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.' George Gordon Lord Byron [Poets] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.' George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph Spence Anecdotes Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expression of Tom Campbell's; speaking of Collins, he says... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Campbell Specimens of the British Poets (including prefator... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read "Homer Travestied" (the first twelve books), becaus... George Gordon Lord Byron Anon. Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that g... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- out of Campbell's edition. There is a good deal of ta... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Campbell Specimens of the British Poets (including prefator... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of the song of Milton, "Sabrina fair" has brought back... George Gordon Lord Byron John Milton Sabrina Fair Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821, on memories of Cambridge life with friend Edward Noel Long: 'I remember our buying, with vast alacr... George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Edward Noel Young. Thomas Moore Epistles, Odes and Other Poems Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guido Sorelli of the German Grillparzer ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Franz Grillparzer Sappho Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schiller, and Wieland, than I could wish. I only know th... George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Wolfgang von Goethe unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schiller, and Wieland, than I could wish. I only know th... George Gordon Lord Byron Schiller unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schiller, and Wieland, than I could wish. I only know th... George Gordon Lord Byron Christoph Martin Wieland unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an intended tragedy of Sardanapalus ... read over a passa... George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the opening lines of the intended tragedy of Sardanapalus.' George Gordon Lord Byron Seneca tragedies Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.' George Gordon Lord Byron Seneca tragedies Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.' George Gordon Lord Byron Diodorus Siculus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's Greece -- wrote part of a scene of "Sardanapalus".' George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: 'In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going together, in the same carriage, to dine with Earl Gre... Thomas Moore Javanese newspaper Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- dined ...' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lombardy -- English, Italian, French, and Latin. Read ... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [various books] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Read letters ...' George Gordon Lord Byron letters Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and daughter, of Mr. R. L. Edgeworth, the father of the M... George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth Memoirs Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Correspondence. Dined ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior Grimm Correspondence Litteraire Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remarked on an anecdote in Grimm's Correspondence ... [rep... George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior Grimm Correspondence Litteraire Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lounged.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I have been reading W[ilhelm]. F[riedrich]. S[chlegel] ..... George Gordon Lord Byron Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel History of Literature Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].' George Gordon Lord Byron Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel History of Literature Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Correspondence.' George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior Grimm Correspondence Litteraire Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Edgeworth's Memoirs of something similar ... in the ca... George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth Memoirs Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with all the replies and rejoinders. Perceive that my n... George Gordon Lord Byron William Lisle Bowles various Print : Serial / periodicalUnknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Louis Buonaparte Documents Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouver... Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned ... Read "Tales of my Landlord" ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Tales of my Landlord Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day, I found a thought of Tom Moore's in a song of Maup... George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior Grimm Correspondence Litteraire Print : BookByron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not written.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- read Roman History.' George Gordon Lord Byron Roman history Unknown 1600-1699 'God... did cast into my hand, one day, a book of "Martin Luther", his comment on the "Galathians", so old that it was ready to fall piece from piece, if I did but turn i... John Bunyan Martin Luther Commentary on the Galations Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c. &c ... I do reiterate -- and desire that every thi... George Gordon Lord Byron Italian newspaper Print : NewspaperUnknown1500-1599 'and then hard one of the men read of the book of marters, and so went to bed' Margaret Hoby John Foxe Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an... Print : Book1800-1849 In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant (and ... George Gordon Lord Byron William Turner Journal of a Tour in the Levant Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out Waverley and the Guy M[annering] -- and the Antiqua... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott [various novels] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in the Quarterly. It was severe. -- but surely not so sev... George Gordon Lord Byron John Wilson Croker review of John Keats, Endymion Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cenci Unknown 1700-1799 Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particularly taken with the battle near the Lake Regillus i... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown Roman History Print : Book1700-1799 Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Grammar ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Ruddiman Latin Grammar Print : BookByron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive yo... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Hodgson Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by th... Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive yo... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Hodgson Saeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... dined, and turned over yr. notes.' George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Hodgson Notes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occ... Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one in the papers -- as secondary to Burdett and Canning.... George Gordon Lord Byron Douglas Kinnaird letter (ie article?) Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & full of fun and ferocity' [goes on to speculate as to w... George Gordon Lord Byron J. G. Lockhart John Bull's Letter to Lord Byron Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply N. N. A. ... She simply says that she is dying, and... George Gordon Lord Byron [N. N. A.] anon [private letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to continue Don Juan ... She had read the two first [cantos]... Countess Teresa Guiccioli George Gordon Lord Byron Don Juan (Cantos I and II) Print : BookManuscript : LetterByron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in England some months ago. I only saw them, by Murray's ... George Gordon Lord Byron A. A. Watts series of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byr... Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...' George Gordon Lord Byron John Wilson Croker Adverse review of John Keats, Endymion Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of the furniture in Canto 3d. is taken from Tully's Trip... George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Tully Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court o... Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) relating to Bowles-Pope controversy. George Gordon Lord Byron Octavius Gilchrist pamphlets Print : Pamphlet1500-1599 'then hard Mr Rhodes read, and so went to bed' Richard Rhodes [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those books -- and had read them through and through befo... George Gordon Lord Byron Books of Old Testament Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron] ... nor h... George Gordon Lord Byron Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the L... Print : AdvertisementByron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take up his own "Monody on Garrick". -- He lighted ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Sheridan Monody on Garrick Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he re... Charles 2nd Earl Grey unknown Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second ... Manuscript : LetterUnknown1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he re... William Wyndham Lord Grenville unknown Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second ... Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ever read was in 1806-07.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [reviews] Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1700-1799 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that is English as exercises) a translation of a Chorus fr... George Gordon Lord Byron Aeschylus Prometheus Bound Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over again.' George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Fielding unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of yours to him yesterday, and he begs me to write to yo... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore [letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to himself [John Cam Hobhouse]? ...... Douglas Kinnaird George Gordon Lord Byron Memoirs Manuscript : Unknown1500-1599 'then, after dinner, I walked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read' Richard Rhodes [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -- I perceive that the "two greatest examples of huma... George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's Messenger Print : NewspaperByron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till the winter following [summer 1820]. The first time I ... George Gordon Lord Byron advertisement for "Mirandola" Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey ... which he is pleased to entitle a reply to "a no... George Gordon Lord Byron Robert Southey letter Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical drama Cain] -- but I perceive one upon you in the paper... George Gordon Lord Byron Oxoniensis [pseud.] Remonstrance against Cain Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in which it is said that there are people who have disco... George Gordon Lord Byron article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinbu... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the door -- on the left as you enter -- there is a monumen... George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript : epitaph1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impartial Galignani.' George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Jeffrey unknown Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subscriptions for the Irish poor from Florence, but not f... George Gordon Lord Byron Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief funds Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): '[Galignani] ... has forwarded a copy of at least on... George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's Messenger Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): 'At last I seized Thompson's book of prescriptions --... George Gordon Lord Byron Thompson book of prescriptions Print : Book1700-1799 Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in Sophia and Harriet Lee's Canterbury Tales] from which... George Gordon Lord Byron Harriet Lee The German's Tale Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinary production ... I know or knew personally most of t... George Gordon Lord Byron Count D'Orsay Journal Manuscript : Unknown1500-1599 'M. Rhodes read a sarmon of the Reuel: and so went to bed' Margaret Rhodes [unknown] [sermon - Revelation] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more welcome than the short work in which the actions of you... George Gordon Lord Byron Antoine Francois Sergent-Marceau Notices Historiques sur le General Marceau Print : Book1700-1799 Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... was at the desire of Madame de Stael ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Benjamin Constant Adolphe Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure... George Gordon Lord Byron Henri Beyle Rome Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure... George Gordon Lord Byron Henri Beyle Life of Haydn Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure... George Gordon Lord Byron Henri Beyle Life of Mozart Print : Book
