√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ... Catherine Hutton Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ... Catherine Hutton Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ... Catherine Hutton Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ... Catherine Hutton Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ... Catherine Hutton Jane Austen Persuasion Print : Book1850-1899 '[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt], [Francis] Thompson ignored the scenery and was "wh... Francis Thompson The Globe Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ... Catherine Hutton Catherine Hutton The Welsh Mountaineer Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ... Catherine Hutton Catherine Hutton Oakwood Hall Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ... Catherine Hutton Catherine Hutton The Miser Married Print : Book1850-1899 'Elinor Glyn recalled "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) being read to her as a child ...' Elinor Glyn George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin Print : Book'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...' Walter Besant [unknown] [American literature] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)' Constance Smedley Louisa May Alcott Little Women Print : Book1850-1899 'I think the enclosed is worth your notice. On making a search, there is no "enclosure". But the International Express Train Service Co, who have an office in Cockspur... R.E. Prothero International Express Train Co monthly guide Print : Pamphlet1850-1899 'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where "Virgilium vidi tantum" originally occurs in Latin ... R.E. Prothero Ovid Tristia IV Print : Book1900-1945 'The last Quarterly contained a dishonest and offensive attack upon me by an American journalist, whom I dimly remember as an employe of Blorrity years ago when I refused... J.E.C. Bodley Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bettesworth' to Pearson's (a firm for which he was not a... Arnold Bennett George Sturt The Bettesworth Book Manuscript : Sheet1850-1899 Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lips."
John Ruskin Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Print : Book1850-1899 Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of a critical sentence on painter's work: "that it was... John Ruskin Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Unknown 1900-1945 'I see that a new volume of the Dizzy life is announced.' Algernon Cecil Advertisement of book on Disraeli's Life in the Qu... Print : Advertisement, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As I am writing to you, it wd, I feel, be disingenuous in me if I did not tell you how fully I share the surprise and regret which some at least whose opinion you would,... J.C. Collins Article on Stephen Phillips in the Quarterly Revie... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Dear Mr. Prothero, Did you see the Morning Post of last Wednesday or Thursday? The headlines ran: "British Spy in the Kiel Canal" and then they proceed to give my name a... J.M. de Beaufort Article in the Morning Post entitled 'British Spy ... Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I think Algernon's article is quite first rate, about the best thing he ever wrote. It is at once individual and sane - don't you think so?' John Bailey Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: — "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Car... Donald Brown Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Carlyle w... T. Market Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Carlyle w... W. A. Pool Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'My dear Prothero, I hope you will not mind my saying as an old friend and contributor to the Quarterly how much I regret seeing in the July issue the article "India unde... Valentine Chirol Article entitled "India under Lord Hardinge" in th... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Dear Dr. Prothero, Are you reading Curtin's articles in the Times? I have followed every one of them very carefully, and I must admit I started reading them with some an... J.M. de Beaufort Curtin The Times (series of articles) Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death bores through the King's crowns - and 'farewell King... John Ruskin William Shakespeare Richard II Print : Book1850-1899 Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular. John Buchan Arnold Bennett The Man from the North Manuscript : Sheet, proofs1850-1899 He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into the right artistic mood. Arnold Bennett Edmund de Goncourt Journals Print : Book1700-1799 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 Euclid Elements Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. September 1792: 'I ought to be studying Euclid — (the Devil take that wretch & make draw triangles below) but Rousseau be... Robert Southey Rousseau unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you... Robert Southey Thomas Gray Gray Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a ... Print : Unknown1850-1899 Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, why I like her.'
John Ruskin Stephane-Felicite de Genlis Print : Book1850-1899 Letter 6/9/1857 (Bridge of Allan) - 'I am very glad those are the reasons for your dislike of Mme de Genlis - both because I can entirely agree in the general principle o... John Ruskin Stephane-Felicite de Genlis unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'. John Ruskin Maria Edgeworth Helen Print : Book1800-1849 Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [Genesis, IV, vv.6-7] are of much more importance to m... John Ruskin The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's last dispatch as giving me courage to write to her abou... John Ruskin Lord John Russell Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on Manchester. (I will put it all right in the next ed... Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John Ruskin The Political Economy of Art Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you... Robert Southey Thomas Gray Gray Ode on the Spring Print : UnknownLetter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the story is the last in the Arabian nights." John Ruskin Arabian Nights Print : Book1800-1849 Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walter's. - Do you see what the French call him now: - (s... John Ruskin Sir Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 "He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote 3 on letter W 38. "Writing in 1865, Lady Waterford,... Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John Ruskin Cestus of Aglaia Print : Book1800-1849 Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junction with what Saussure calls the 'poudingues de Valors... John Ruskin Horace Benedict de Saussure Voyages dans les Alpes Print : Book1850-1899 "Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to bed so unhappy, that all was wrong and out of joint... Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you... Robert Southey Thomas Parnell A Fairy Tale, in the Ancient English Style Print : Unknown1850-1899 "Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the sermon on to myself and be the better for it... Yours... Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John Ruskin Crown of Wild Olives Print : Book1800-1849 Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation [end underline]? Do you agree with Dugald Stewart, H... Anna Letitia Barbauld William Paley Natural Theology Print : Book1850-1899 'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson, and my mother, all agitated in defence of her i... Mrs Hughes Alfred, Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall Print : Book1850-1899 The Lord Mayor's Show. 'The boys always went ... They always brought home for me a little book, that opened out to nearly a yard of coloured pictures, displaying all the ... M.V, Hughes anon A Penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show Print : Book1700-1799 " Read Davila." "Read...and Davila" Lady Eleanor Butler Davila ? [ History of the French Civil Wars] Unknown 1700-1799 " Read Davila." "Read...and Davila" Lady Eleanor Butler Davila ? [ History of the French Civil Wars] Unknown 1850-1899 Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowe... Constance Smedley Henry David Thoreau unknown Print : Unknown1850-1899 Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowe... Constance Smedley Ralph Waldo Emerson unknown Print : Book1700-1799 " Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again undertake such a tiresome nonsensical piece of business.... Lady Eleanor Butler Charlotte Smith Emmeline Print : Book1850-1899 Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Low... Constance Smedley James Russell Lowell Print : Unknown1700-1799 " reading Rousseau to my Sally." Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown 1700-1799 " From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life." Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown 1900-1945 "When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at Alderley Park, the verdict was that 'it was terribly ... Mrs Humphrey Ward Mrs Humphrey Ward Canadian Born Unknown 1700-1799 " From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally. Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown 1700-1799 " I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison." Lady Eleanor Butler Samuel Richardson The Rambler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 " Read Six Sonatto di Petrarca" Lady Eleanor Butler Petrarch Sonatto di Petrarca Print : Book1700-1799 " Finished The Tatler" Lady Eleanor Butler The Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 " began the Spectator" Lady Eleanor Butler The Spectator Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 " Began Les Memoires de Madame Maintenon. I doubt whether the vulgarity of stile (sic), absurd anecdotes and impertinent reflections will permit me to read it." Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de Maintenon Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon Print : Book1700-1799 " Nine till twelve in the Dressing room reading-finished Les Memoires de Maintenon. Began her letters" Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de Maintenon Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon Print : Book1700-1799 " finished Swinburne's Travel Through Spain to My Love." Lady Eleanor Butler Swinburne Travels through Spain Print : Book1900-1945 'During her visit [to America] in 1905-6 May Sinclair was reduced to tears when she saw one article, based on a conversation over tea, which she felt included too intimat... May Sinclair unknown article Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1700-1799 Went again to the shrubbery-brought our books namely Gil Blas and Madame de Sevigne with us. Lady Eleanor Butler A.R. Lesage Gil Blas Print : Book1700-1799 " From two till three I read Tab. de la Suisse." Lady Eleanor Butler Tab. de la Suisse Unknown 1850-1899 Robert Sherard on Oscar Wilde's work as a lecturer, in Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship (1902; 1908) 87-9: 'It was a real penance to him, and I could under... Robert Sherard advertisements for Oscar Wilde's lectures Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de Metterniche Memoires Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Corneille Theatro du Grand Corneilles Print : Book1850-1899 '... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of t... Oscar Wilde Reise-Bilder Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Racine Theatro et oevres de Racine Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Dante La Divina Commedia Print : Book1850-1899 '... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of t... Oscar Wilde Pocket German dictionary Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Pietro Metastasio opera (16 Tom) Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Gilpin Northern Tour Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Thomas Gray Works Print : Book1700-1799 " Then my beloved read La Morte d'Abel" Sarah Ponsonby La Morte D'Abel Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisie Knew (1897), he rather thought that "she is my ver... Edward Morgan Forster Henry James What Maisie Knew Print : Book1900-1945 Not long ago I happened to call at the railway carter, and found the wife of the man engaged in reading George Eliots' 'Adam Bede' George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1800-1849 "went to church, came back, got parlour lunch, had my own dinner, sit by the fire and red (sic) the Penny magazine and opened the door when any visitors came." William Tayler Penny Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... 'I am struck with the beastly bloodiness of it ...'" Henry James H. Rider Haggard She Print : Book1850-1899 '[Flora Thompson's] grandmother enjoyed the Princess Novelette and similar penny series, "and she had an assortment of these which she kept tied up in flat parcels, ready... unknown Princess Novelette Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read... [unknown] [books] Print : Book1900-1945 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read... [n/a] [daily newspapers] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 '"Desperately in love with the hero", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia Kavanagh's "Natalie" (1850).' Mary Gladstone Julia Kavanagh Natalie Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Gladstone ... devoured Julia Kavanagh's "Adele" (1858) ...' Mary Gladstone Julia Kavanagh Adele Print : Book1850-1899 '... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her fathe... William Ewart Gladstone Julia Kavanagh Natalie Print : Book1900-1945 'Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, "Stayed in bed until dinner. I read 'East Lynne' till my eyes ached."' Lady Cynthia Asquith Mrs Henry Wood East Lynne Print : Book1850-1899 'Annie Swan [from Leith] ... vividly recalled the occasion when her mother "surprised us all by retiring to her room for a whole day, abandoning everything. The mystery ... Mrs Swan Mrs Henry Wood East Lynne Print : Book1850-1899 "Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]." William Ewart Gladstone Mary Elizabeth Braddon unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Read the 2d volume of Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature & Art'. It is a pretty little thing, not in the same way as the 'Italian'. Joseph Hunter Elizabeth Inchbald Nature and Art Print : Book1700-1799 I finished Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature and Art', the second volume is not so pleasing as the first, but yet it has a very pleasing conclusion, showing the destruction of vice ... Joseph Hunter Elizabeth Inchbald Nature and Art Print : Book1850-1899 '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took... George Moore Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audley's Secret Print : Book1850-1899 '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took... George Moore Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Doctor's Wife Print : Book1850-1899 '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took... George Moore Percy Bysshe Shelley unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took... George Moore George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... from a chance meeting in a railway carriage with Kipling, [Newman] Flower discovered that he had read ... [The Story-Teller] almost from the first.' Rudyard Kipling The Story-Teller Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George cheap popular fiction Print : Book1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George Charles Dickens unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George John Milton unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George Robert Burns unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George Jeffrey Farnol The Amateur Gentleman Print : BookCharles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I asked her what it was. "Oh," she replied, "It's Maggie"... Miss Garvice Stephen Crane Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Print : BookCharles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I asked her what it was. "Oh," she replied, "It's Maggie"... Charles Garvice Stephen Crane Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... at Stanway in 1916 for her sister's twenty-first birthday, Lady Cynthia [Asquith] entertained family and guests after dinner by [mockingly] reading from The Rosary ... Lady Cynthia Asquith Florence L. Barclay The Rosary Print : Book1850-1899 '...[Hall Caine] told [Samuel] Norris that he had read the Bible through seven times, and Norris conceded that he could quote it in remarkable fashion.' Hall Caine The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapegoat", which he read on publication in 1891 ...' William Ewart Gladstone Hall Caine The Scapegoat Print : Book1850-1899 On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's Tragedy" ...' Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti The King's Tragedy Unknown 1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Henry Fielding [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Tobias Smollett [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Samuel Richardson [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Ann Radcliffe [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Matthew Gregory Lewis [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine William Makepeace Thackeray [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Charles Dickens [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 ?The other day I was reading a life in wh. a biographer calmly states that his hero was imprisoned by the Long Parl[iament] in 1644 and goes on to remark in the next sent... Leslie Stephen [a biography] Unknown 1850-1899 ?Meanwhile I have a book from you, wh. I ought to have acknowledged. I guess that Julia did my duty & I did it better than I should. But, though late, I will say thank yo... Leslie Stephen James Russell Lowell Democracy and other addresses Print : Book1850-1899 "I think you have done Mrs B[rowning] very well. I have read it & put in some savage criticism, marking, however, what I really think should be omitted in a dictionary." Leslie Stephen Anne Isabella Ritchie 'Mrs Browning' (life for the DNB) Unknown 1850-1899 Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver want of the book. [The Elements of Drawing, which had b... Anna Blunden John Ruskin The Elements of Drawing Print : Book1850-1899 Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many better. Read Aubrey de Vere's if you like - there's ... John Ruskin Aubrey Thomas de Vere Unknown 1800-1849 Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them... John Ruskin Edmund Spencer The Faerie Queen Print : Book1850-1899 Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them... Anna Blunden Edmund Spencer The Faerie Queen Print : Book1850-1899 Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."... John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett Browining Aurora Leigh Print : Book1850-1899 Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."... Anna Blunden Elizabeth Barrett Browining Aurora Leigh Print : Book1800-1849 Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good." John Ruskin John Burnet [on composition] Print : Book1850-1899 Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the title, but I do not care about re-publishing the thing... Anna Blunden John Ruskin Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds Print : Pamphlet1850-1899 Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in the A... John Ruskin Robert Browning Men and Women Print : Book1800-1849 From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; he found its author to be 'a great enthusiast and ru... John Heaton John Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H53, January 1857
"But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he is in comparison. How unexpected also are most of hi... John Ruskin Hans Christian Andersen Fairy legends and Tales Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her poetry than ever - she is a noble creature." John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems, including "Drama of Exile" Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Rossetti has thoroughly understood the passage througho... John Ruskin Dante Alighieri Inferno Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is not yet set - It is only on the mountains" But he dra... John Ruskin Plato Death of Socrates Print : Book1850-1899 The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Paris was spent with Mr and Mrs Browning, who send you... Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert Browning Men and Women Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H 25, Late November 1855 - "-Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in that Athenaeum critique I agree with - for I am very stupid in making things out in po... John Ruskin The Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Modern Painters.' Ellen Heaton John Ruskin Modern Painters I and II Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burde... John Ruskin George Gordon Lord Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor." John Ruskin Walter Scott Waverley Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Bur... John Ruskin Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Burden of Nineveh Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be useless to you. Carey is on the whole the best - and ver... John Ruskin Dante Alighieri Print : Book1850-1899 '2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the tower at Calais, with Ruskin's "delightful" description.... Ellen Heaton John Ruskin Modern Painters IV Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volume of Modern Painters, published Jan 15, 1856] from ... Ellen Heaton John Ruskin Modern Painters III Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you... Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles Bedford Ode Manuscript : Sheet1850-1899 Letter H 32 - 11/1/1857 - "Here is a little bit of criticism at last by way of example on your beginning of the Butterfly. "I am going to tell you." This is familiar - as... John Ruskin Ellen Heaton Tales Manuscript : Unpublished short tales1700-1799 [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w... Eugenia Wynne [n/a] [Gazettes / newspapers from paris] Print : Newspaper1600-1699 "Back I went by Mr. Downing's order, and stayed there til 12 o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings, but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading t... Samuel Pepys Dutch Ambassador [a speech] Manuscript : Letter1700-1799 'Some of the fine madams pointed out to him [Mr Sym] a few inadvertencies [in Hogg's "The Spy"], or, more properly, absurdities, which had occurred in the papers; but he ... Robert Sym James Hogg The Spy Print : Serial / periodical1600-1699 "Here Swan showed us a ballat to the tune of Mardike, which was the most incomparably writ in a printed hand; which I borrowed, but the song proved silly and so I did not... Samuel Pepys [ballad] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 "This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the fleet. The contents of the letter are his offer of gr... Samuel Pepys Declaration of Breda Print : Broadsheet, Handbill1700-1799 [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w... Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Moliere [pseud.] Les Precieuses Ridicules Print : Book1900-1945 13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy." Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy." Leslie Stephen [an article on Shakespeare] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 . . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Towns]; he writes complaining that Bennett makes 'an in... George Sturt Arnold Bennett Anna of the Five Towns Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'The bloody proceeding [a reference to a disturbance at Westminster School] I have seen no account of in the papers ... Robert Southey Morning Post Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the utmost utility & what no university can teach — Homer... Robert Southey Homer Iliad Print : Book1850-1899 "I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat together with Romer in the furthest corner enjoying liter... Leslie Stephen Oliver Wendell Holmes Print : Book1850-1899 'Before this walk we had service in chapel, in this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a... Leslie Stephen The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 "Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a... Leslie Stephen [a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law] Print : Book1850-1899 'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a... Leslie Stephen [a list in Latin of benefactors] Unknown 1850-1899 'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a... Leslie Stephen the Te Deum Unknown 1850-1899 "Do you know that I have just read in a book that my grandfather James Stephen invented the orders in council - which produced the American war of 1812 - wh. would have d... Leslie Stephen Print : Book1850-1899 "I am now going in for another shot at "Christie's Faith". I am feeling devilishly lazy - Oh! I will try a pipe - it may wake me up - 5 PM.
5.45 I have done it! both pip... Leslie Stephen Christie's Faith Print : Book1850-1899 "I have hardly read a book except for strictly professional purposes for 3 months & more. One of the few I have read is Dixon's New America. I should like to know what yo... Leslie Stephen W Hepworth Dixon New America Print : Book1850-1899 ?Talking of books, you will perhaps be in the way of seeing a volume of Essays on Reform just published. You may find there some remarks by one you know on American exper... Leslie Stephen [Essays on Reform] Print : Book1850-1899 "You say you have been reading some French novels lately." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. [Some French novels] Print : Book1850-1899 "From your account of the absence of newspapers - on wh. I congratulate you sincerely - you may possibly have heard that the lords [sic] have given in about the Irish chu... Leslie Stephen Newspapers Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "You say you have been reading some French novels lately. I am much given to that amusement though I never read de Musset - by the way. I don't quite agree with yr praise... Leslie Stephen [Some French novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything satisfactory about it. It leaves an impression on my mi... Margaret Oliphant George Eliot Felix Holt the Radical Print : Book1850-1899 'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offering, not even by a publisher in his own name a [itali... Margaret Oliphant [Advertisement of works by Lamartine] Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1850-1899 'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am alone in thinking so, of if the opinion is general, b... Margaret Oliphant The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'. Margaret Oliphant Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as I read. I don't suppose my powers are equal to her... Margaret Oliphant Elizabeth Gaskell Life of Charlotte Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ago, yet was published only the other day - for whom... Margaret Oliphant Swinburne Threnody Print : Newspaper1850-1899 '[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'. Margaret Oliphant [Italian] Unknown 1850-1899 'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one watches everything he does. I have read over and o... Margaret Oliphant Walter Scott Journal Print : Book1850-1899 'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I thought it too personal, too sacred for publication, bu... Margaret Oliphant R.T. Davison Life of Archibald Campbell Tait Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic ... Margaret Oliphant John Addington Symonds Life of Symonds Print : Book1850-1899 'Robert Macpherson came down with us to Civita Vecchia to see us off, and, I remember, read to me all the way there a story he had written, one of the stories flying abou... Robert Macpherson Robert Macpherson Manuscript : Sheet1850-1899 'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in the study that had been made for him, copying for me, ... Francis Wilson Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in the study that had been made for him, copying for me, ... Willie Wilson unknown unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Suddenly he [William Edmonstoune Ayton] burst forth without any warning with "Come hither Evan Cameron" - and repeated the poem to us.' William Edmonstoune Ayton William Edmonstoune Ayton The Execution of Montrose Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '. . . the cab driver reads a coloured comic paper . . .' [a cab driver] anon Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father." Harriet Stephen George Barnett Smith The Works of Thackeray Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father." Ann Thackeray George Barnett Smith The Works of Thackeray Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "I read with satisfaction Lowell's poem wh. you sent me. The only fault I find with him is that he occasionally lets his criticism get mixed up in his poetry, but it is t... Leslie Stephen James Russell Lowell Agassiz Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan." Leslie Stephen Robert Louis Stevenson Ordered South Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no complaints to make of it & no wish to carry on the con... Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison Maurice Print : Book1850-1899 "Excuse all this; but though you may not easily give me credit I really admired Mr Maurice; I attended his lectures as a boy; I studied his books carefully & I should be ... Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison Maurice Print : Book1800-1849 I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp... Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print : Book1800-1849 I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp... Leslie Stephen William Shakespeare Print : Book1800-1849 I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp... Leslie Stephen Alfred Tennyson Print : Book1800-1849 I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp... Leslie Stephen John Milton Print : Book1800-1849 'I was captivated by "Margaret Maitland" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a copy and a too flattering letter [...] Nothing half so ... Francis Jeffrey Margaret Oliphant Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland Print : Book1850-1899 'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'. Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer Lytton Night and Morning Print : Book1850-1899 'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of human experience in them, - the troubles of this lif... Margaret Oliphant Edward Caird Sermons Print : Book1850-1899 We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".' Margaret Oliphant Athenaeum Print : Advertisement, Serial / periodical1850-1899 We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".' Margaret Oliphant unknown Review of Adam Bede Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerable resemblance in that writer to Mr Gilfil and the R... Frank Oliphant Anthony Trollope Print : Book1850-1899 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' Margaret Oliphant ?Edward ?Bulwer Lytton St Stephen's Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Saints, so there you have a peep at our ... Maggie Oliphant A.B. Jameson Legends of the Saints Print : Book1900-1945 John Partridge on popularity of Charles Garvice's fiction: '[at Easter 1911] I looked round a large kiosk at a popular seaside place and observed that Mr Charles Garvice'... John Partridge The Daily Chronicle Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...] Is it necessary to mention distinctly Maurice and F... Margaret Oliphant R.H. Story Manuscript : Sheet, work in MS1850-1899 'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possibility that you may be defendants in an imperial pla... Margaret Oliphant A.W. Kinglake Invasion of the Crimea Print : Book1900-1945 '...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for authors killed in the war, at which Edmund Gosse read the ... Edmund Gosse Lesson Print : Book1900-1945 Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe (1923): 'I began to ... Newman Flower Hall Caine The Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction) Print : Book1850-1899 '[Marie] Corelli's rendering of the Resurrection in Barabbas [1893] was read from the pulpit on Easter Sunday at Westminster Abbey by the Dean.' Marie Corelli Barabbas Print : Book'The editor of the British Weekly, [William] Robertson Nicoll, wrote to [Marie] Corelli on 3 November 1920: "I always think of you in connexion with my old friend Dr Park... Joseph Parker Marie Corelli novels Print : Book1900-1945 'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his opinions about Indian government reform until he no... Marie Corelli Holy Orders Print : Book1850-1899 G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of exclamation -- I counted 39 in 3 pages.'" G. H. Hardy Marie Corelli Ardath Print : Book1900-1945 "Rupert Brook [ironically] advised Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes against attempting The Sorrows of Satan, [Marie] Corelli's principal best-seller: 'It is the richest work o... Rupert Brooke Marie Corelli The Sorrows of Satan Print : Book1850-1899 "[Gladstone's] daughter Mary and her husband, the Revd Harry Drew, read Vendetta together in 1887, noting 'goodish plot but rather rot otherwise'." Harry and Mary Drew Marie Corelli Vendetta Print : Book1850-1899 'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world, not entirely worldly, a quintessence of social wis... Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer Lytton Essays Print : Book1850-1899 "... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r... William Ewart Gladstone Marie Corelli A Romance of Two Worlds Print : Book1850-1899 "... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r... William Ewart Gladstone Marie Corelli Ardath Print : Book1850-1899 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t... Margaret Oliphant Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Print : Book1850-1899 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t... Margaret Oliphant Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Print : Book1850-1899 Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: "'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity and the critic... Arnold Bennett Marie Corelli ? The Sorrows of Satan Print : Book1850-1899 "...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had r... Edward Prince of Wales Marie Corelli novels Print : Book1850-1899 'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you know) which has the honour of appearing in "Maga" [... Margaret Oliphant David Wingate My Little Wife Print : Book1850-1899 "...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had r... George Duke of York Marie Corelli novels Print : Book1850-1899 " ... Gilbert Frankau ... read ... [Nat Gould's novels] while at Eton at the turn of the century ..." Gilbert Frankau Nat Gould novels Print : Book1900-1945 'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & the bindings were exquisite'. Katherine Mansfield [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book"For [Nat] Gould, the highest commendation of his 'art' came ... when Walter Home, the Routledge's representative who snapped up The Double Event, told him that he nearly... Walter Home Nat Gould The Double Event Print : Book1900-1945 'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that little "Harold Brown" shop in Wimpole Shop [for street... Katherine Mansfield Louis Vintras The Silver Net Print : Book1850-1899 "In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', with the death of Eva ...'" Andrew Lang Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners and receptions.' Katherine Mansfield Print : Book1850-1899 'The Queen [Victoria] ... read the sequel [to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"], "Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp" (1856), and considered it as good ...' Queen Victoria Harriet Beecher Stowe Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp Print : Book1900-1945 'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do please read "Sheaves" - It is delightful and also, it i... Katherine Mansfield E.F. Benson Sheaves Print : Book1900-1945 'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.' Katherine Mansfield Stendhal Print : Book1900-1945 'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.' Katherine Mansfield Stendhal Print : Book1850-1899 'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" she added about the latter that Pr... Queen Victoria Edna Lyall Donovan: A Modern Englishman Print : Book1850-1899 'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" [1884] she added about the latter ... Princess Beatrice Edna Lyall We Two Print : Book1850-1899 'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...' Ruth Baily Edna Lyall We Two Print : Book1850-1899 'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...' Ruth Baily Edna Lyall Donovan: A Modern Englishman Print : Book1850-1899 'It made me think of a poem that our german professor used to read us in class. Ja, das war zum letzenmal/ Das, wir beide, arm in arme/ unter einem Schirm gebogen. --/ A... Katherine Mansfield Edward Morike Erinerung - an C.N. Unknown 1800-1849 'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [...] I was exactly in the situation of the consul, Fla... Thomas Babington Macaulay Livy (Titus Livius) History of Rome Book XIII Print : Book1900-1945 'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of Procris'. Katherine Mansfield William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis Print : Book1850-1899 "'I have finished Endymion with a painful feeling that the writer [Disraeli] considers all political life as mere play and gambling,' wrote the Archbishop of Canterbury, ... A. C. Tait Benjamin Disraeli Endymion Print : Book1900-1945 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. Katherine Mansfield John Middleton Murry The Loneliness of Leon Bloy Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. Katherine Mansfield John Middleton Murry The Loneliness of Leon Bloy Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in letter of 22 August 1894], 'unspeakable' ... he could ... Henry James George Meredith Lord Ormont and his Aminta Print : Book1900-1945 'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my mind.' Katherine Mansfield Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the flute: it positively frightens me - to realise this... Katherine Mansfield Virginia Woolf Night and Day Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson George Meredith The Egoist Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Scott [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson Alexandre Dumas [novel] Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare [works] Print : Book1900-1945 'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbey now - or if she did I'd have none of her'. Katherine Mansfield Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Print : Book1800-1849 'in a few days after this I met with a book written by Mr Bunyan the title of the book was the two Covenants in this book the unpardonable Sin was explained this part I s... Joseph Mayett John Bunyan Two covenants Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson Michel de Montaigne [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson Moliere [pseud] [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.' Katherine Mansfield Bible Print : Book1850-1899 "[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after its publication when Meredith sent him a copy in 18... Wilfrid Scawen Blunt George Meredith Modern Love Print : Book1900-1945 'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very interesting or very good, but I can wade through pages an... Katherine Mansfield Henry James Confidence Print : Book1900-1945 "Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On 10 March 1916 she tested this proposition by reading... Lady Cynthia Asquith George Meredith The Egoist Print : Book1900-1945 'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "human, all too human." Read until late. I felt wre... Katherine Mansfield Nietzsche Print : Book1900-1945 "... Lady Cynthia [Asquith] was gratified to learn that, found in his pocket when Billy Grenfell was killed in battle in 1915 was a Meredith poem, copied out for him by h... Lady Desborough George Meredith poem 1900-1945 'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'. Katherine Mansfield unknown unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'. Katherine Mansfield Print : Book1900-1945 'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'. Katherine Mansfield [poetry] Print : Book1900-1945 "At the age of 18 Violet Asquith ... tackled The Egoist, which 'I thought brilliant. The first 3 pages made me so angry by their obscureness ... that I nearly left off .... Violet Asquith George Meredith The Egoist Print : Book1900-1945 'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her.... Katherine Mansfield Colette L'Entrave Print : Book1900-1945 'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her.... Katherine Mansfield Colette L'Entrave Print : Book1900-1945 ' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet until it falls asle... Katherine Mansfield William Temple Miscellanea Print : Book1900-1945 ' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" writes Dorothy'. Katherine Mansfield Dorothy Wordsworth Journal Print : Book1900-1945 ' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts of life" (Jane Austen's "Elinor and Edward"). My Go... Katherine Mansfield Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1900-1945 'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'. Katherine Mansfield Print : Book1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek n/a [sexual grafitti] Manuscript : Graffito1900-1945 'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'. Katherine Mansfield Dostoevsky Print : Book1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek n/a [scandalous news stories in local press] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek n/a Lloyd's Weekly News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek William Shakespeare Measure for Measure Print : Book1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek n/a The Song of Solomon Print : Book1900-1945 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their c... Katherine Mansfield Octave Mirbeau Print : Book1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek [unknown] [old plays] Print : Book1900-1945 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their c... Katherine Mansfield Octave Mirbeau Print : Book1900-1945 'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fix... Katherine Mansfield Lloyd George Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But it's not good enough. E.M.Forster never gets any fur... Katherine Mansfield E.M. Forster Howard's End Print : Book1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek William Booth In Darkest England and the Way Out Print : Book1900-1945 'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tc... Katherine Mansfield Anton Chekhov Geneva Print : Book1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek Tobias Smollett [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tc... Katherine Mansfield Anton Chekhov Hamilton Print : Book1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek Richard Quain Dictionary of Medicine Print : Book1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek n/a Leviticus Print : Book1900-1945 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ... Mark Grossek Ovid [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed". Katherine Mansfield Dostoevsky The Idiot Print : Book1900-1945 Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed". Katherine Mansfield Dostoevsky The Possessed Print : Book1900-1945 'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in the sewing class, and she couldn't.' Katherine Mansfield Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 '"This book [Dr Foote's Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia) made a great impression on me", wrote Glasgow foundryworker Thomas Bell "And I handed it round my workmates until... Thomas Bell Edward Bliss Foote Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia Print : Book1900-1945 'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p... Ethel Mannin [unknown] [home medical books] Print : Book1900-1945 'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p... Ethel Mannin Sigmund Freud [unknown-works] Print : Book1900-1945 'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p... Ethel Mannin n/a [encyclopaedias] Print : Book1900-1945 'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p... Ethel Mannin n/a Song of Solomon Print : Book1900-1945 'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p... Ethel Mannin n/a Genesis (story of Jacob and Esau) Print : Book1900-1945 'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class girlfriend, asked her how Margaret had become pregnant... John Edmonds Charles Reade The Cloister and the Hearth Print : Book1900-1945 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s... Jennie Lee Marie Stopes [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s... Jennie Lee Havelock Ellis [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s... Jennie Lee Sigmund Freud Print : Book1900-1945 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow... Ruth Slate Leo Tolstoy Resurrection Print : Book1900-1945 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow... Ruth Slate Auguste Forel Sexual Ethics Print : Book1900-1945 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow... Ruth Slate Christabel Pankhurst The Great Scourge Print : Book1900-1945 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow... Ruth Slate New Age Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow... Ruth Slate Freewoman Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ... Eva Slawson Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Print : Book, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ... Eva Slawson Edward Carpenter Love's Coming of Age Print : Book1900-1945 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ... Eva Slawson Herbert George Wells The New Machiavelli Print : Book1900-1945 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ... Eva Slawson Herbert George Wells Ann Veronica Print : Book1900-1945 'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birth control , which she gratefully read'. Gladys Teal Marie Stopes [book on birth control] Print : Book1900-1945 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually... Margaret Powell Marie Stopes [book on sex] Print : Book1900-1945 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually... Margaret Powell Havelock Ellis [book on sex] Print : Book1900-1945 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havellock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventuall... Margaret Powell Kama Sutra Print : Book1900-1945 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th... Elizabeth Ring Havelock Ellis Print : Book1900-1945 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th... Elizabeth Ring Sigmund Freud Print : Book1900-1945 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th... Elizabeth Ring Bertrand Russell Print : Book1900-1945 [Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.' Arnold Bennett Honore de Balzac Print : Book1900-1945 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and... C.H. Rolph The Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and... C.H. Rolph The Daily Telegraph Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and... C.H. Rolph Referee Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and... C.H. Rolph John Bull Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '. . . he was reading Gaboriau's detective fiction enthusiastically at this time, and makes several polite acknowledgements to him in the text itself, as well as in his j... Arnold Bennett Gaboriau [detective fiction] Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the utmost utility & what no university can teach — Homer... Robert Southey Homer Odyssey Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H 49 (late November 1856)
?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama) ? but it is a noble drama too ? ?
John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh Print : Book1850-1899 From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856:
?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthusiastic: ?No doubt you are revelling, as I am, in Au... Dante Gabriel Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860)
?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is spoiled for rhyme?s sake.?
John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems before Congress Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860)
?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly offensive and ?band plays?) ? Finest moral poetry eve... John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems before Congress Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861)
?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.?
John Ruskin William Morris The Defence of Guenevere Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (... John Ruskin Homer Odyssey Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (... John Ruskin Homer Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 '"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we chang... Austen family Madame de Genlis Alphonsine, or Maternal Affection Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (... John Ruskin Johann von Goethe Faust Print : Book1700-1799 'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.' James Boswell John Gay [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 Letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, May 7 1846
?Miss Heaton ? told me yesterday that the poetess proper of the city of Leeds was ?Mrs A.? ? as she lives in L... Ellen Heaton Rebecca Hey The Moral of Flowers (1833) and The Spirit of the ... Print : Book1850-1899 ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in... Leslie Stephen The Spectator Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in... Leslie Stephen The Pall Mall Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in... Leslie Stephen The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in... Leslie Stephen The World Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this nightmare is Wordsworth? I used not to care for him es... Leslie Stephen William Wordsworth Print : Book1900-1945 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth... Dylan Thomas Edgar Allan Poe Print : Book1850-1899 ?And this reminds me by a further association of ideas that you would do well to look ? if you like to have your stomach turned ? at Farrar?s Life of Christ ? the gospels... Leslie Stephen Frederick Farrar The Life of Christ Print : Book1850-1899 "Payn showed me yesterday an article of yours upon a Miss Grant of whom I confess, I have heard for the first time; but I thought the whole really well written & feel tha... Leslie Stephen William Ernest Henley Miss Grant Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th century sermons. Lord! how dull they are - almost as dull... Leslie Stephen [18th and 19th century sermons] Print : Book1850-1899 "I go off tomorrow to Cumberland where I shall climb the British Mt Blanc & forget for a short time that there are such things as books to be written. I take 2 or 3 to re... Leslie Stephen James Russell Lowell Pictures from Appledore Print : Book1850-1899 "I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiritualised a little, strikes a right note at times but... Leslie Stephen Omar Khayyam Print : Book1850-1899 '... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...' King Kalakava Robert Louis Stevenson Print : Unknown1900-1945 '[A. A.] Milne ... [became] a decided anti-militarist after reading Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" (1910) ...' Alan Alexander Milne Norman Angell The Great Illusion Print : Book1850-1899 '[Robert] Bridges had spent eight months in Germany in the 1860s, after going down from Oxford; and Heine's lyrics, among his favourite reading, had influenced his own po... Robert Bridges Heinrich Heine lyric poetry Print : Unknown1900-1945 'One enthusiastic reader of "Land and Water" was the poet James Elroy Flecker, who, in the process of dying in a Swiss sanatorium, requested his parents to take out a sub... James Elroy Flecker anon Land and Water Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. Fletcher had just published ...' Edward Morgan Forster Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and Fletcher A School History of England Print : Book1850-1899 '[Walter] Besant told [William Robertson] Nicoll that no sooner had he read "The Light that Failed" (1891) on a long train journey than he started it again and read it th... Walter Besant Rudyard Kipling The Light that Failed Print : Book1900-1945 'The sculptress Kathleen Bruce, widow of the Arctic explorer Captain Scott ... became positively scornful when she read [H. G.] Wells's "God the Invisible King" in 1917 .... Kathleen Bruce H. G. Wells God the Invisible King Print : Book1850-1899 George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter part, but miserable writing.' George Gissing George Moore Esther Waters Print : Book1900-1945 'Aubrey Hicks offers an illustration of how little world news reached even the best-informed workers. His father, a painter on the Rothschild estate at Tring, had attende... Aubrey Hicks Daily Chronicle Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure "Eric Brighteyes" (1891), was roused by "a wild illustration" to start reading a chapter nearer the end th... Thomas Hardy Rider Haggard Eric Brighteyes Print : Book1900-1945 '... reading "Sons and Lovers", [W. H. Hudson] judged it "a very good book indeed except in that
portion where he relapses into the old sty -- the neck-sucking and wall... William Henry Hudson D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers Print : Book1900-1945 '[John] Galsworthy sent [Thomas] Hardy a presentation copy of "The Man of Property" [1906] and, Hardy told Florence Henniker, "I began it, but found the people too materi... Thomas Hardy John Galsworthy The Man of Property Print : Book1900-1945 'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son ... who was looked after by an aged housekeeper ['an ... Florence Murray Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1850-1899 'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.' Arnold Bennett The Bible Print : Book'In 1970, on radio, Field Marshal Montgomery said that reading "When it was Dark" [1903] had been a turning point in his life.' Bernard Law Montgomery Guy Thorne When it was Dark Print : Book1850-1899 '[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".' George Bernard Shaw St Paul Epistles Print : Book1850-1899 '[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".' George Bernard Shaw The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 '[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".' George Bernard Shaw John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1900-1945 '"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1909.' George Bernard Shaw Henry James The Saloon Unknown 1850-1899 Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: "'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bought him, but ... am bound to say that I was woefully... Thomas Hardy Stephen Phillips Poems Print : Book1850-1899 'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed' John Buckley Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1850-1899 " ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe." Dante Gabriel Rossetti Charlotte M. Yonge The Heir of Redclyffe Print : Book1850-1899 " ... Charles Kingsley ... told ... [its] publisher that ... [Heartsease] was 'the most delightful and wholesome novel I ever read ... I found myself wiping my eyes a doz... Charles Kingsley Charlotte M. Yonge Heartsease Print : Book1850-1899 "The Prime Minister's daughter Violet Asquith read ... [The Heir of Redclyffe] seven times 'from cover to cover -- never failing to cry at the end' ..." Violet Asquith Charlotte M. Yonge The Heir of Redclyffe Print : Book1900-1945 'When Wilfrid Blunt ... reread "Loss and Gain" he was struck how "Newman's mind ... seems never to have faced the real issues of belief and unbelief, those which have to ... Wilfrid Scawen Blunt John Henry Newman Loss and Gain Print : Book1850-1899 'The retired Governor of Madras Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, to whom Mrs [Humphry] Ward read extracts from "Robert Elsmere "before it was published, was arrested by the no... Mrs Humphry Ward Mary Augusta Ward Robert Elsmere 1850-1899 'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded Macmillan's to give it general release.' Mary Augusta Ward J. Henry Shorthouse John Inglesant 1850-1899 'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was published, spending the long summer holidays in the quiet of... Janet Courtney J. Henry Shorthouse John Inglesant Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi... William Ewart Gladstone Thomas Hardy Print : Unknown1850-1899 ' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi... William Ewart Gladstone Emile Zola Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...' William Ewart Gladstone Mrs Humphry Ward The History of David Grieve Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be read. Probably a somewhat superior Mrs Humphry Ward... Arnold Bennett Edith Wharton The House of Mirth Print : Book1800-1849 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'. Thomas Babington Macaulay Plutarch Lives Print : Book1850-1899 "Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to me good & dignified without being too much like a ser... Leslie Stephen John Morley On Compromise Print : Book1800-1849 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'. Thomas Babington Macaulay Milner Ecclesiastical History Print : Book1800-1849 'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'. Thomas Babington Macaulay Xenophon Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dislike writing straight after reading Mrs H. Ward! -- ... Virginia Woolf Mrs Humphry Ward Print : Book1850-1899 "And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism, wh. has sold ten editions of the number, twaddle th... Leslie Stephen W E Gladstone Ritualism and Ritual Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce. Thomas Babington Macaulay Homer The Odyssey Print : Book1850-1899 "And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism, wh. has sold ten editions of the number, twaddle th... Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'. Thomas Babington Macaulay Virgil Print : Book1850-1899 "I am spending a quiet Sunday morning in Birbeck's smoking room - reading a novel." Leslie Stephen [Novel] Print : Book1800-1849 The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.' Thomas Babington Macaulay Fenelon Dialogues of the Dead Print : Book1800-1849 'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible, and I should be very much obliged for one or two m... Thomas Babington Macaulay Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis Print : Book1800-1849 [Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and without doing it with a dictionary like other lessons'. Thomas Babington Macaulay Bible Print : Book1800-1849 "It is very like Shirley except that there is no heather & the people are all of them of the Yorkshire kind as described by the Brontes." Leslie Stephen Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book1800-1849 'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ myself in reading, and Mr Preston lends me any book... Thomas Babington Macaulay Print : Book1800-1849 "He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be patted & generally would easily become a tenant of Wil... Leslie Stephen Anne Bronte Tenant of Wildfell Hall Print : Book1800-1849 'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale of a hundred cantos...' Thomas Babington Macaulay Boccacio Decameron Print : Book1800-1849 "The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser - not but that you will also heretically deny his in... Leslie Stephen Francois de La Rochefoucauld Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales Print : Book1800-1849 'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from the London papers.' Thomas Babington Macaulay Print : Newspaper
