√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 "Rather vexatiously Mat Arnold has sent in an article wh. I must read before it goes in because it is supposed to be heterodox & I can't get it back till tomorrow night." Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Literature and Dogma (possibly) Manuscript : proofs of article1850-1899 We have all read, by the way, The Poet at the breakfast table & sent him our sincere compliments on his performance." Leslie Stephen Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes The Poet at the Breakfast Table Print : Book1800-1849 "I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though she does not have such a young lady like admiration fo... Leslie Stephen Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book1850-1899 "I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though she does not have such a young lady like admiration fo... Leslie Stephen George Eliot Middlemarch Print : Book1800-1849 "But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as a critic that the less authors read of criticisms t... Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print : Book1850-1899 "S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell." Leslie Stephen Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Print : Book1850-1899 "S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell." Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Print : Book1850-1899 "S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell." Leslie Stephen Lowell Print : Book1850-1899 "If I were in the vein, I think I should exhort you above all to read George Sand, whose country stories seem to me perfect & have a certain affinity to yours. The last I... Leslie Stephen George Sand Les maitres Sonneurs Print : Book1850-1899 "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I always thought them rather wasted on a Magazine - yet... Leslie Stephen William Ernest Henley Hospital Sonnets Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I always thought them rather wasted on a Magazine - yet... Leslie Stephen William Ernest Henley Children: Private Ward Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '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 David Herbert Lawrence Print : Book1850-1899 "It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prep... Edmund Gosse William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Print : Book1850-1899 " It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, pre... Edmund Gosse William Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing Print : Book1850-1899 " It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive order one verse,in the early morning before breakfast.... Edmund Gosse Bible Print : Book1850-1899 " But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus saved. Such considerable sums I fostered in order to... Edmund Gosse Samuel Taylor Coleridge [poems] Print : Book1850-1899 " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to my self- respect. I had long coveted in ... Edmund Gosse Ben Jonson Print : Book1850-1899 " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to myself-respect. I had long coveted in the... Edmund Gosse Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander Print : Book1850-1899 " When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my stepmother that she might be a partner in my joys. It i... Edmund Gosse Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander Print : Book1850-1899 " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession entire, in the shape of a reprint more hideous and more... Edmund Gosse William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely captivated me." Edmund Gosse John Keats Print : Book1850-1899 "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Queen Mab' at first repelled me from the threshold of h... Edmund Gosse Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab Print : Book1850-1899 " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for the exercise of whose magic I was still far too young... Edmund Gosse William Wordsworth Print : Book1850-1899 "I tried to read Lord Lytton's Lucile which is rot." Leslie Stephen Robert Bulwer-Lytton Lucile Print : Book1850-1899 "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found impossible to... Edmund Gosse Robert Southey Works (poetical?) Print : Book1850-1899 "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found it impossible ... Edmund Gosse F.T Palgrave The Golden Treasury Print : Book1850-1899 "I have led a specially quiet life of late; amusing myself by reading a little biography for a change - a good many Newmanite lives in particular. Some day I shall remark... Leslie Stephen [biographies] Print : Book1850-1899 "I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more at his extraordinary power occasionally & at its wa... Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print : Book1850-1899 " He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and these he had so magnificently bound in full morocco t... Edmund Gosse Greek New Testament Print : Book1850-1899 "Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to... Edmund Gosse Thomas Carlyle Print : Book1850-1899 "The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amiable & showed me a newspaper cutting with a comic poe... Leslie Stephen [a thief] [comic poem] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -since these magicians were now first revealing themse... Edmund Gosse John Ruskin Print : Book1850-1899 "The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained with great elocution what you were to do if you met ... Leslie Stephen ["The Bear Book"] Print : Book1850-1899 "I am, I see, talking pessimism. It is not very easy to talk anything else just now. When I read our debates, I sometimes think that we are doing our best to exemplify th... Leslie Stephen The Latterday Pamphlets Print : Pamphlet1850-1899 "I began Robinson Crusoe with Laura. I think that she will be up to it & we made a pretty good start." Leslie Stephen Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 "This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked with one I loved two & thirty years ago / All along ... Leslie Stephen Alfred Tennyson In the Valley of the Cauteretz Print : Book1850-1899 "Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of mind, wh. is scarcely compatible with perfect sanity. Y... Leslie Stephen John Ruskin Fors [Clavigera] Print : Book1850-1899 "I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled." Leslie Stephen Alphonse Daudet Print : Book1850-1899 "I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled." Leslie Stephen Plato Print : Book1850-1899 "I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly." Leslie Stephen Print : Book1850-1899 "I stayed at home this morning - not that there is anything new in that - until lunch, and did very little, very easy work - just finishing up a small life. It rained ste... Leslie Stephen M.G. Lewis The Monk Print : Book1850-1899 "I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even see a paper expect the Pall Mall Gazette wh. I read... Leslie Stephen Pall Mall Gazette Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but which told some things of interest to me." Leslie Stephen E. E. Hale James Russell Lowell and his friends Print : Book1800-1849 21/8/1829 ? 'The General gave us an account of the early years of the [French] revolution, the other gentlemen assisting. The evening ended only too soon, but I read in m... Amelia Opie Louise Philippe Segur Memoirs and Recollections Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating George Gordon, Lord Byron [unknown] 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 Edward Gibbon presumably Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1700-1799 'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: at seventeen, when scenes like this occurred, you pr... Thomas Holcroft Amelia Opie Adelaide Manuscript : Play script1900-1945 'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political message "crashed into my mind, mixing together the ... G.A.W. Tomlinson Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade Print : Book1900-1945 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona... John Allaway John Maynard Keynes Print : Book1800-1849 '27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discourage... Amelia Opie Stephen Crisp Sermons Print : Book1800-1849 '27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discourage... Amelia Opie John Newton Cardiphonia Print : Book1900-1945 "I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and envying) mastery in the art of putting things." Leslie Stephen William James The varieties of religious experience 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 Emmuska Orczy Print : Book1850-1899 'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the "exercises" of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers... Leslie Stephen Proceedings of the PBK Print : Proceedings1850-1899 'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the 'exercises' of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers... Leslie Stephen Richard Watson Gilder [poem] Unknown 1850-1899 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo... Leslie Stephen Richard Grant White [on Copyright] Print : Book1850-1899 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo... Leslie Stephen Various Saturday Review Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo... Leslie Stephen Richard Grant White Washington Adams Print : Book1850-1899 'I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say that I am in perfect charity with my critic. I should... Leslie Stephen Henry Sidgwick Review of Leslie Stephen's The Science of Ethics Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I wo... Leslie Stephen Edmund Gosse Life of Gray Print : Book1850-1899 'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I wo... Leslie Stephen William Shakespeare unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'On these awful dark days there is no work to be done; so this morning after answering notes and paying bills and doing everything I hate doing, I sat down in a very depr... Kate Perugini Print : Unknown1850-1899 'My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ? found it a tolerably thorough morsel. It is like wa... Leslie Stephen Chauncey Wright Philosophical Discussions Print : Book1850-1899 'The statement wh. I transmitted to you about Cortes was the vaguest but I will see if I can find out anything from my friend, whom I expect to see again. The general eff... Leslie Stephen Various Saturday Review, The Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ... Leslie Stephen G. B. Smith The Brontes Manuscript : article1850-1899 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ... Leslie Stephen Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1850-1899 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ... Leslie Stephen Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Print : Book1850-1899 'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.' Leslie Stephen Charlotte Bronte Villette Print : Book1850-1899 'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.' Leslie Stephen Charlotte Bronte Shirley 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 William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what it comes to, it is an elaborate apology for the mora... Leslie Stephen John Henry Newman An essay in aid of a grammar of assent Print : Book1850-1899 'He [Leslie Stephen's brother] wrote articles for the Pall Mall Gazette all the way out to India; enough, he says, to pay his passage; and some of them were amongst the b... Leslie Stephen J.F. Stephen Pall Mall Gazette, articles Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti... Leslie Stephen unknown [French novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti... Leslie Stephen George Sand unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti... Leslie Stephen Honore de Balzac unknown Print : Book1900-1945 '. . . then Edith Sitwell appeared, her nose longer than an ant-eaters, and read some of her absurd stuff...' Edith Sitwell Edith Sitwell poems Unknown 1800-1849 ?Of course, it is true that English writers ? Thackeray conspicuously so ? are injured by being cramped as to love in its various manifestations? Consequently within give... Leslie Stephen William Thackeray Print : Book1850-1899 ?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but nonsense of a genius & not without a certain point. ... Leslie Stephen Thomas Carlyle Shooting Niagara Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy to read some of the old dramatists, being prompted by... Leslie Stephen William Shakespeare Henry VIII Print : Book1850-1899 ?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to read a whole mass of contemporary stuff wh. would sw... Leslie Stephen Thomas Aquinas Print : Book1850-1899 ?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some of Ruskin?s manifestoes to the world.? Leslie Stephen John Ruskin Fors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers... Print : Book1850-1899 ?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say frankly that I think the sheepshearing rather long ... Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 ?I have received your book and in spite of your permission to abstain, have read it from first to last? My ignorance of the subject was pretty exhaustive but I knew just ... Leslie Stephen Herbert Fisher Studies in Napoleonic statesmanship: Germany Print : Book1800-1849 "Then I promised Morley to contribute to a continuation of the 'Men of Letters' series a book upon George Eliot. I find it very hard to tell you the truth. I admire Engli... Leslie Stephen George Eliot Romola Print : Book1900-1945 "Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him." Leslie Stephen John Ruskin Praeterita Print : Book1900-1945 "Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him." Leslie Stephen John Ruskin Print : Book1850-1899 "Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed." Leslie Stephen Dante Alighieri Print : Book1850-1899 'I find distraction in writing, with a growing sense that it is not worth the trouble; but at 64 it is too late to learn a new trade. I read a bit too; though books have ... Leslie Stephen George Santayana unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went through the whole. It suggested to me innumerable sp... Leslie Stephen Dante Alighieri unknown Print : Book1850-1899 ?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as were apparently on a level with my comprehension?I fo... Leslie Stephen F W Maitland History of English Law Print : Book1850-1899 ?The best I have read are two or three of Swift?s, who has a real go in him wh. cannot be quenched even by theology. There is a charming sermon on brotherly love; wh. he ... Leslie Stephen Swift sermons Print : Book1850-1899 ?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly because the book seemed to me to be feeble rhetoricall... Leslie Stephen John Robert Seeley Ecce Homo: a survey of the life and work of Jesus ... Print : Book1850-1899 ?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan. I shall be happy to accept Hugo & if I have been ... Leslie Stephen Robert Louis Stevenson article on Victor Hugo Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be ... Leslie Stephen Victor Hugo Print : Book1800-1849 ?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be... Leslie Stephen Henry Fielding Print : Book1800-1849 ?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be... Leslie Stephen Samuel Richardson Print : Book1850-1899 ?Have you read Mat Arnold?s letters? Some, I see, are addressed to you? I can imagine old Carlyle taking himself to be a prophet, as indeed he was; but Mat Arnold, I shou... Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Letters of Matthew Arnold: 1848-1888 Print : Book1850-1899 "I was thinking of Eliot [Norton] the other day. When he was here in the summer he came one day to see Miss Valey. She had a pleasant little talk with us & was pleased, ... Leslie Stephen Margaret Veley Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems 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 Christopher Marlowe Print : Book1700-1799 "... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present ... Maria Edgeworth Vittorio Alfieri Memoirs Print : Book1800-1849 "I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provoked by the absurdities, and in admiration of the tas... Maria Edgeworth Germaine De Stael Corinne Print : Book1800-1849 then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William Jones's and Sir William Chambers's Asiatic Miscellan... Maria Edgeworth Sir William Jones Asiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from vario... Print : Book1700-1799 "I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine. Do you think Margaret cannot li... Maria Edgeworth John Sargent The Mine; to which are added two historic odes (Th... Print : Book1800-1849 'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong and worthy of Pope and the Dunciad! But I was so much... Maria Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satire Print : Book1700-1799 "By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr... Charles Robert Maturin Samuel Richardson Clarissa Print : Book1700-1799 "By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr... Charles Robert Maturin Samuel Richardson Pamela Print : Book1700-1799 ?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a latitude unexampled and uncontrolled. His personage... Charles Robert Maturin Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison Print : Book1700-1799 ?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion that can distract the human heart or agitate human li... Charles Robert Maturin Maria Edgeworth Patronage Print : Book1800-1849 ?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic... Charles Robert Maturin Maria Edgeworth Belinda Print : Book1800-1849 ?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic... Charles Robert Maturin Maria Edgeworth Comic Dramas Print : Book1800-1849 ?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost fainting, lady is lifted out of the arms of her anxio... Charles Robert Maturin Maria Edgeworth Tales of Fashionable Life Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. as I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see ... Robert Southey Watson Chemical Essay Print : Book1700-1799 ?It would be necessary to notice here, when we profess to give a sketch of the progress of novel or romance writing, as indication of and connected with the state of mann... Charles Robert Maturin Charlotte Lennox The Female Quixote Print : Book1700-1799 ?Cumberland attempted and failed to revive the classical English novel. We sit down in fact by Cumberlands? fireside and listen to his long dull stories as we would to th... Charles Robert Maturin Richard Cumberland Arundel Print : Book1700-1799 ?Walpole?s Catle of Otranto, though dramatized by Jephson, has few imitations. Clara Reeve?s English Baron was the best, but even she in vain beckoned authors to cross th... Charles Robert Maturin Clara Reeve The Old English Baron Print : Book1700-1799 ??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pure and too profound to be ranked with novels, and too... Charles Robert Maturin Hannah More Coelebs in search of a wife Print : Book1800-1849 ?Upon the whole, this play with the powerful assistance of eminent actors and scenical illusion and burning palaces, and processions with towers of the Inquisition in per... Charles Maturin Richard Lalor Sheil The Apostate: a tragedy in five acts Print : Book1800-1849 ?Amid these dark middle ages of novel literature, Miss Burney?s Evelina strikes us with the first gleam of ?rescued nature and reviving sense.? Her novels, all her novels... Charles Maturin Fanny Burney Evelina Print : Book1700-1799 ?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fielding?s chief excellence appears to lie in the deli... Charles Maturin Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Print : Book1700-1799 ?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty is so strong that it almost puzzles us to find a co... Charles Maturin Charlotte Smith The Old Manor House Print : Book1700-1799 ??in Mrs Radcliff?s romances. She was ? an extraordinary female, and her style of writing ? must be allowed to form an era in English romances. Her ignorance was nearly e... Charles Maturin Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho Print : Book?The most extraordinary production of this period was the powerful and wicked romance of The Monk.? Charles Maturin Matthew Gregory Lewis The Monk Print : Book1700-1799 ?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.?
?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal of any of his long poems. There is something in the... Charles Maturin George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Print : Book1700-1799 "'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?'
'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably.'" Charles Robert Maturin Thomas Otway Complete Plays Print : Book1700-1799 "'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?'
'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably. I speak, perhaps, fr... Charles Maturin Thomas Southern Complete Plays Print : Book1700-1799 ??Coleridge, who, en parenthesis, he disliked for a merciless attack on his tragedy. Which the ill success of the ?Remorse? had incited; and he had prepared a retaliation... Charles Maturin Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel and Other Poems Print : Book1700-1799 ?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon hanging up, and another going to be put on the stocks; ... Maria Edgeworth William Nicholson The First Principles of Chemistry Print : Book1800-1849 ?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend to you as a book you will admire, because it furnishe... Maria Edgeworth Charles-Louis Montesquieu Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decad... Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. As I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see ... Robert Southey Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 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 Edward Young Print : Book1800-1849 'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider... With respect to ... Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Print : Book1600-1699 The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu... John Taylor Thomas More Utopia Print : Book1600-1699 The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu... John Taylor Plato Republic Print : Book1600-1699 The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu... John Taylor Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays Print : Book1600-1699 The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu... John Taylor Miguel de Cervantes probably Don Quixote Print : Book1900-1945 In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th... Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) William Paley View of the Evidences of Christianity Print : Book1700-1799 ?He ingenuously seized opportunities, when his parents were away from home, to construct his private theatricals, which he did by converting folding doors into a green cu... Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel Lee The Rival Queens, or The Death of Alexander Print : Book1900-1945 In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th... Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel Riddle of the Universe Print : Book1900-1945 In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th... Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Herbert Spencer The Study of Sociology Print : Book1900-1945 In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th... Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Marcus Aurelius Meditations Print : Book1800-1849 ?In May 1820 Sheridan Knowles produced ?Virginius?. The extraordinary success of that play naturally excited Maturin?s curiosity, and he was impatient to read it. ? When ... Charles Robert Maturin James Sheridan Knowles Virginius Print : Book1700-1799 "I can see no difference between his case [Nathaniel Lee] and Shelley or Byron, except that they have method and he had none." Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel Lee Print : Book1700-1799 ?Of Sir Walter Scott I have heard Maturin speak in terms of rapture. He considered his extraordinary productions the greatest efforts of human genius, and often said that... Charles Robert Maturin Sir Walter Scott complete works to 1820 Print : Book1700-1799 ??And which of the living poets fulfils your ideal standard of excellence??
?Crabbe. He is all nature without pomp or parade and exhibits at times deep pathos and feel... Charles Robert Maturin George Crabbe poetic works Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Leo Tolstoy Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Maxim Gorky Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Jack London Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Sinclair Lewis Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Honore de Balzac Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Guy de Maupassant Print : Book1700-1799 ??Moore, who is a poet of inspiration, could write in any circumstances. There is no man of the age labours harder than Moore. He is often a month working out the end of ... Charles Robert Maturin Thomas Moore Complete Poems and Songs Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Alfred Lord Tennyson Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Robert Browning Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn John Keats Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn William Shakespeare Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Francis Thompson Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn John Donne Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Alfred Edward Housman Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Christina Rossetti Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Francis Turner Palgrave Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics Print : Book1800-1849 ?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large building, with a fa?ade to it like a very large hotel or ... Maria Edgeworth Maxmillian de Bethune Sully Memoirs Print : Book1700-1799 ??And whom do you estimate after Crabbe??
?I am disposed to say Hogg. His ?Queen?s wake? is splendid and impassioned work. I like it for its varieties and its utter si... Charles Robert Maturin James Hogg Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton John Locke Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton Friedrich von Nietzsche Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton Henry David Thoreau Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton Arthur Schopenhauer Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton Karl Marx Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Voltaire [pseud.] Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Eugene Labaume Relation circonstanci?e de la campagne de Russie Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Sallust Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund Burke [anon.] A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter... Print : Book1800-1849 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police &... Cassandra Leigh Austen John Carr Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Pa... Print : Book1800-1849
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelle... Percy Bysshe Shelley William Shakespeare [Plays] Print : Book1850-1899 [D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday' D.R. Davies Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England from the Accession of James... Print : Book1850-1899 'Often I sat with her on Sunday afternoons before the fire blazing in an old-fashioned range which shone with black-leaded iron and gleaming steel. There was a home-made ... Tom Stephenson Chorley Guardian Print : Newspaper1800-1849 ?We saw at Brussels two of the best Paris actors, and Madame Talma. The play was Racine?s Andromache (initiated in England as the Distressed Mother.) Madame Talma played ... Maria Edgeworth Jean Racine Andromache Print : Book1850-1899 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Bible Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Charles Lamb Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies William Hazlitt Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies John Ruskin The Crown of Wild olive: Three Lectures on Work, T... Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Karl Marx Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Adam Smith Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies John Stuart Mill Print : Book1700-1799 ?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met with in the middle of Grainger?s Worthies of England... Maria Edgeworth James Granger A Biographical history of England from Egbert the ... Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies David Ricardo Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Alfred Marshall Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies George Bernard Shaw Fabian Essays Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies [trade union history] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Thomas Hardy Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies George Meredith Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Rudyard Kipling Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Charles Dickens Print : Book1700-1799 ?This evening my father has been reading out Gay?s Trivia to our great entertainment. I wished very much, my dear aunt, that you and Sophy had been sitting round the fire... R.L. Edgeworth John Gay Trivia: or the art of walking the streets of Londo... Print : Book1850-1899 'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'... Joseph Keating [boys' magazines] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'... Joseph Keating [thrillers] Print : Book1850-1899 'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'... Joseph Keating [Greek Philosophy] Print : Book1700-1799 "Another favourite of his was Hogg, whose ballad of "Bonny Kilmery" he had by heart." Charles Robert Maturin James Hogg Bonny Kilmeny Print : Book1800-1849 I am so delighted with Barrow?s note on the qualities of Tobacco (communicated by Harfield) that I can think of nothing else. Charles Dickens Barrow [note on the qualities of tobacco] Print : Unknown, possibly appeared in newspaper The Morning Chronicle1850-1899 : 'Father and mother are sitting by the fire, the one reading the Evening News [Bolton?], the other mending stockings.' [Bolton?] Evening News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 Q: Did your father read?
A: No. He was a poor reader. He would rather my mother read to him, I think, read him the book and tell him the plot. He would have the paper, ... Lancashire Daily Post Print : Newspaper, Local newspaper1900-1945 Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who read it?
A: It was m'dad, he would read it from b... News of the World Print : Newspaper1900-1945 Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who read it?
A: It was m'dad, he would read it from b... John Bull Print : Book, Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father?s birthday, but I shall do it up in my own room, an... Maria Edgeworth Charles Robert Dallas History of the Maroons, from their origin to the e... Print : Book1700-1799 ?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.? Maria Edgeworth Charlotte Smith Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of Nation... Print : Book1800-1849 ?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the celebrated palace of Chantilly, made still more int... Maria Edgeworth Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse) Mademoiselle de Clermont Print : Book1800-1849 ?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming story of Mademoiselle de Clermont on Madame de Genlis?s ... Maria Edgeworth Breton Voyage dans les Pays Bas Print : Book1700-1799 ?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children cannot tell which story it is. Her daughter, Madame G... Maria Edgeworth Berquin Ami des Enfants: select stories for the instructio... Print : Book1850-1899 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with ... George Eliot [pseud] Euripides Iphigenia Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 ?Charlotte cordials me twice a day with Cecilia, which she reads charmingly, and which entertains me as much at the third reading as it did at the first.? Maria Edgeworth Fanny Burney Cecilia Print : Book1700-1799 'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story for the first time. It is one of those pleasures whic... Maria Edgeworth Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison Print : Book1700-1799 'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the translation which talks of her uncle Bimont's dying... Maria Edgeworth Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la Platiere Memoirs Print : Book1700-1799 'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympathy with her husband could not have a very extensive ... Maria Edgeworth Kalidasa Sakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian drama Print : Book1850-1899 'I heard, at that blessed City Mission meeting, which I attended the other evening, that our county is reckoned one of the worst for crime and ignorance. ? (note written ... Amelia Opie Print : Newspaper1800-1849 7/1/1827 ? ?Then read the first part of Mary Dudley?s Life; felt true unity with her experience when first called to the ministry. What a bright course was hers! ? Amelia Opie Mary Dudley Print : Book1800-1849 7/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profess... Amelia Opie Hugh Twyford The Grounds of Holy Life Print : Book1800-1849 8/1/1827 ? ?Finished M. R. Milford?s pretty book, and write out my new fable.? Amelia Opie M R Milford Print : Book1800-1849 7/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profess... Amelia Opie Apostle Paul Address to Agrippa Print : Book1800-1849 14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.' Amelia Opie John Galt The Life and administration of Cardinal Wolsey Print : Book1800-1849 14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.' Amelia Opie [n/a] Psalm Print : Book1700-1799 'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm... Elizabeth Inchbald William Godwin Mary Wollstonecraft Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating Alexander Pope Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating Henry Fielding Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating Tobias Smollett Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating Oliver Goldsmith Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating Samuel Richardson Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating Jonathan Swift Print : Book1800-1849 'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm... Elizabeth Inchbald Rescoe The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating Richard Brinsley Sheridan Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating John Keats Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating William Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1800-1849 19/6/1847 ? 'I have been reading the life of Sarah Martin; it made me shed many tears, from the sense of her superior virtue, and my own inferiority. What an example she ... Amelia Opie unknown Life of Sarah Martin Print : Book1900-1945 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m... G.A.W. Tomlinson Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Print : Book1900-1945 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m... G.A.W. Tomlinson Charles Lamb Print : Book1900-1945 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m... G.A.W. Tomlinson Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species Print : Book1900-1945 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m... G.A.W. Tomlinson Oscar Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol Print : Book1900-1945 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m... G.A.W. Tomlinson Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village Print : Book1800-1849 ?Well, I do remember the pleasure Mr Opie expressed in reading a proverb in one act, taken from the French of ?Carmontel?, and published by Mr Holcroft, with other entert... John Opie Holcroft Theatrical recorder Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '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 Thomas Hardy 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 Algernon Charles Swinburne 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 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote 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 Clarion (literary pages) Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '27/1/1833 ? Read Carne?s "letters from the East", which, though not new to me, were most pleasing; so absorbed with his accounts of the Holy Land, I could scarcely quit ... Amelia Opie John Carne Letters from the East Print : Book1800-1849 'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of every opportunity that has offered itself of religious ... Amelia Opie Scriptures Print : Book1700-1799 ?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.? Amelia Opie Mme de Genlis Print : Book1900-1945 '[Edith] Hall recalled that she discovered Thomas Hardy in a WEA class in the 1920s when "Punch and other publications of that kind showed cartoons depicting the servant ... Edith Hall Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Print : Book1700-1799 "Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves in the shade while John took a book from his pocket... John Pitchford Thomas Grey Perigrinus Porteous Print : Book1800-1849 ?Here Hayley kept his books and manuscripts and the choicest pieces of his famous collection of Chinese porcelain. The walls were adorned with prints and drawings, and he... Amelia Opie William Hayley Manuscript : Plays1700-1799 "Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves in the shade while John took a book from his pocket... John Pitchford Thomas Grey Elegy written in a Country Churchyard Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Herbert George Wells Print : Book1800-1849 ?The little Frys found the hours very long when they sat in the large, rather austere drawing-room, trying not to fidget, while their mother read aloud to them long chapt... Elizabeth Fry Bible Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Arthur Conan Doyle [Sherlock Holmes Stories] Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Henry Rider Haggard [African stories] Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall William Wymark Jacobs Print : Book1800-1849 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j... Thomas Carter n/a Courier Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall [illustrated weeklies] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Punch Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Truth Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Review of Reviews Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'. George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus Agamemnon Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.' George Eliot [pseud] Henry Thomas Buckle History of Civilization in England Print : Book1800-1849 ?Mrs Opie?s was essentially a happy temperament and with such adaptability as she possessed, quiet home evenings were not without their charms; even when her husband sat ... Amelia Opie Amelia Opie [her own works] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 ?As usual all the good I saw in my work, before it was printed, is now vanished from my sight and I remember only its faults. All the authors of both sexes, and artists t... Amelia Opie Amelia Opie her own works as they are published Print : Book1800-1849 '6/11/1830 - I have just read the speeches of our Parliament in the Journal des Debats. How entirely I agree with Lord Grey; but the bare possibility of war with France i... Amelia Opie Various Journal des Debats Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li... John Brown Karl Marx Print : Book1900-1945 '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li... John Brown George Bernard Shaw Print : Book1900-1945 '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li... John Brown Friedrich Engels Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley Jack London The Iron Heel Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley [council regulations] Print : Pamphlet1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley Karl Marx Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley Thomas Hobbes Print : Book1800-1849 "4/2/1845 - I have read two volumes (the last two, I think) of Lord Malmesbury's Diaries, and with intense interest. I knew so many of the men he writes about, and lived ... Amelia Opie James Harris Diaries Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley Jean Jacques Rousseau Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley John Locke Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley Thomas Hill Green Print : Book1800-1849 "4/2/1845 - I am also reading Carlyle's History of the French Revolution - full of genius, pathos, and pictures; with all its faults (and it has great ones) still, I can ... Amelia Opie Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution Print : Book1800-1849 "During the whole time of his [her father's] illness, Mrs Opie assiduously attended him; she had later joined the Quakers, and read to him much in the Bible and other rel... Amelia Opie Bible and other religious texts Print : Book1900-1945 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona... John Allaway Alfred Marshall Print : Book1900-1945 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona... John Allaway J.A. Hobson Print : Book1900-1945 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona... John Allaway Henry George Print : Book1800-1849 'I believe simple moral tales the very best mode of instructing the young and the poor ? else why do the pious of all sects and beliefs spread tracts in stories over the ... Amelia Opie unknown [moral tales] Print : Book1900-1945 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona... John Allaway Hugh Dalton Print : Book1700-1799 ?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.? Amelia Opie William Hayley Print : Book1700-1799 'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece... Amelia Opie Charles Dickens [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece... Amelia Opie Walter Scott [novels] Print : Book1800-1849 'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece... Amelia Opie George Borrow unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo... James Clunie Karl Marx Das Kapital Print : Book1900-1945 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo... James Clunie Adam Smith Wealth of Nations Print : Book1900-1945 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo... James Clunie Charles Darwin The Descent of Man Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ... Harriet Martineau The history of the British Empire in India Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ... Thomas Babington Macaulay Essays on Lord Clive And Warren Hastings Print : Book1800-1849 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists".... Thomas Carter [n/a] The Rambler Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Watt's "Lyric Poems" which then came first into my hand... Thomas Carter Isaac Watts Horae Lyricae, Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out of work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge Henri-Louis Bergson Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge Friedrich Nietzsche Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge William McDougall Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge Bertrand Russell Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge New Testament Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge Herbert Spencer Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge Karl Marx Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer... Bronte Family The Leeds Intelligencer Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer... Bronte Family The Leeds Mercury Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer... Bronte Family The John Bull Print : Newspaper1900-1945 '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P... Harry McShane Justice Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P... Harry McShane The Socialist Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P... Harry McShane A.P. Hazell A Summary of Marx's 'Capital' Print : Pamphlet1900-1945 '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P... Harry McShane Robert Blatchford (ed.) The Clarion Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Ellen Nussey's reminiscences of Patrick Bronte's sister-in-law Elizabeth Branwell (in 1871 account of her 1833 visit to Haworth Parsonage): 'In summer she spent part of t... Elizabeth Branwell Unknown 1900-1945 'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hundred pages of close print to come to the crux of hi... Ifan Edwards Karl Marx Das Kapital Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey, 16 March 1837: 'At the first perusal of your letter I felt only shame, and regret that I had ever ventured to trouble you [with reques... Charlotte Bronte Robert Southey letter to Charlotte Bronte Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could talk slickly about dialectical materialism. His own d... Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Karl Marx Das Kapital Print : Book1900-1945 [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could talk slickly about dialectical materialism. His own d... Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Straight and Crooked Thinking Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850, regarding possible publication of letters between herself and Robert Southey: 'I have now read them and feel... Charlotte Bronte Robert and Charlotte Southey and Bronte letters Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850: ' ... the perusal of his [Robert Southey's] "Life and Correspondence" arranged by yourself has much deepened... Charlotte Bronte Robert Southey Life and Correspondence Unknown 1800-1849 Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837
A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] working in Aunts room Branwell reading "Eugene Aram" to... Branwell Bronte Edward Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Charles Darwin [all works] Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Fyodor Dostoevsky Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Honore de Balzac The Human Comedy Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl The Mistaken Subtlety of the Four-Sided Figure Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 4 August 1839, about event following visit of David Pryce, a young Irish curate, to Haworth Parsonage: 'A few days after I got a letter ... Charlotte Bronte David Pryce letter Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Nikolai Gogol The Overcoat Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Nikolai Gogol The Nose Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Nikolai Gogol The Madman's Diary Print : Book1900-1945 'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'. Ewan McColl Friedrich Engels The Peasant War in Germany Print : Book1900-1945 'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'. Ewan McColl Friedrich Engels The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the... Print : Book1800-1849 Branwell Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 27 June 1840: 'I have ... striven to translate 2 books [of Horace] ... the first of which I have presumed to send you ...' Patrick Branwell Bronte Horace Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 10 December 1840: 'I am sorry Sir I did not exist forty or fifty years ago when the "Lady's magazine" was flourishing like a green ... Charlotte Bronte The Lady's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 2 April 1841: 'If you think I'm going to refuse your invitation ... you're mistaken -- as soon as I read your shabby little note -- I ga... Charlotte Bronte Ellen Nussey Note inviting Charlotte Bronte on visit Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Emily Bronte, diary paper for 30 July 1841 'It is Friday evening -- near 9 o'clock ... Aunt upstairs in her room -- she has been reading "Blackwood's Magazine" to papa ..... Elizabeth Branwell Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Anne Bronte, diary paper for 31 July 1845 'Emily is engeaged [sic] in writing the Emperor Julius's life She has read some of it and I want very much to hear the rest ...... Emily Bronte Emily Bronte Life of the Emperor Julius (? Gondal story) Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Although mainly an outdoor boy Rider began to read several popular romances of the day...: "I loved those books that other boys love and I love them still. I well rememb... Henry Rider Haggard Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Anon The Arabian Nights Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Alexandre Dumas (pere) The Three Musketeers Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Edgar Allan Poe Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton The Coming Race Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Thomas Babington Macaulay Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley John Milton Lycidas Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley John Milton Paradise Regained Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley James Thomson Castle of Indolence, The Print : Book1800-1849
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelle... Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge [Poems] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Thomas Carlyle Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd George Bernard Shaw Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Herbert George Wells Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd John Galsworthy Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Arnold Bennett Print : Unknown1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Henrik Ibsen Ghosts Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Benjamin Disraeli Sybil Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Alfred Lord Tennyson The Princess Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Walt Whitman Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Robert Burns Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd George Eliot Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd George (Amantine Lucille Aurore) Sand (Dupin) Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Charlotte /Emily/ Anne Bronte Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Victor Hugo Les Miserables Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Victor Hugo Nore Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ... Harriet Martineau The history of England during the thirty years' pe... Print : Book1800-1849 'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was... Thomas Carter [n/a] The Wreath Print : Book1800-1849 'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inner man"... That I might make the day as long as possi... Thomas Carter [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider. Rousseau's "Contr... Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques Rousseau Du Contrat Social Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on an MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily... Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte poems Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'Currer Bell [ie Charlotte Bronte]'s book [The Professor] found acceptance nowhere ... he tried one ... Charlotte Bronte Letter from Smith, Elder & Co., publishers Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it ..... Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it ..... George Murray Smith Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 W. M. Thackeray to William Smith Williams, 23 October 1847: 'I wish you had not sent me "Jane Eyre." It interested me so much that I have lost (or won if you like) a who... William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 11 December 1847: 'Mr Thackeray is a keen, ruthless satirist -- I have never perused his writings but with blended feelings of... Charlotte Bronte Wililam Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 14 December 1847: 'A few days since I looked over "The Professor." I found the beginning very feeble, the whole narrative def... Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte The Professor Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 18 December 1847: '"The Observer" has just reached me ... I always compel myself to read the Analysis [of her work] in every n... Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte Print : Newspaper1800-1849 J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the cleverest that was written since Austen and Edgewor... John Gibson Lockhart Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 4 January 1848: '"Jane Eyre" has got down into Yorkshire; a copy has even penetrated into this neighbourhood: I saw an elderly... Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley ... Charlotte Bronte George Henry Lewes letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley ... Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 18 January 1848: 'I have not read "Azeth", but I did read or begin to read a tale in the "New Monthly" from the same pen, and ... must co... Charlotte Bronte Eliza Lynn Linton story in New Monthly Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte postscript to letter to William Smith Williams, 12 May 1848: 'I find -- on glancing over yours, that I have forgotten to answer a question you ask respec... Charlotte Bronte William Smith Williams letter to Charlotte Bronte Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 24 July 1848: 'About a month since I received and read "Jane Eyre".' Mary Taylor Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, September 1848: ' ... of ["Ellis Bell's" poetry's] merit I am deeply convinced, and have been from the moment the MS. fell int... Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte poems Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopathic treatments] into Emily's hands as soon as I had m... Charlotte Bronte William Smith Williams letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopathic treatments] into Emily's hands as soon as I had m... Emily Bronte William Smith Williams letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: '"The North American Review" [containing reviews of the Bronte sisters' works in which the authors are presu... Charlotte Bronte The North American Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 29 March 1849: 'I read your kind note to Anne and she wishes me to thank you sincerely for your friendly proposal.' Charlotte Bronte Ellen Nussey note Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 12 April 1849: 'I read Anne's letter [of 5 April] to you; it was touching enough ...' Charlotte Bronte Anne Bronte letter to Ellen Nussey Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 16 August 1849: '"The North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about E. Wyndham, J. Eyre, and F.... Charlotte Bronte The North British Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 1 November 1849: 'I have just received the "Daily News." [containing review of "Shirley"] ... when I read it my heart sickened... Charlotte Bronte The Daily News Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Elizabeth Gaskell, "Life of Charlotte Bronte" (1857): '[Charlotte Bronte's] hosts [in London] took pleasure in showing her the sights of London. On one of the days which... Charlotte Bronte The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 10 January 1850: 'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" [containing negative review of "Shirley" by her friend G.... Charlotte Bronte George Henry Lewes Review of Charlotte Bronte, Shirley Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 16 February 1850: 'A few days since a little incident happened which curiously touched me. Papa put into my hands a little packet of le... Charlotte Bronte Maria Branwell letters and papers Manuscript : Letter, Unknown1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 19 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls having finished "Jane Eyre" is now crying out for the 'other book' [Shirley] ...' Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with it -- John Brown's wife seriously thought he had gone... Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with it -- John Brown's wife seriously thought he had gone... Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book
