√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 'Friday. Lovely day. Walked about[.] No letters. Shown sketches by Russian ... Read Aysha [sic] by Rider Haggard. Ev Bridge. Did not play well. Gym gets on well.' William Thomas Henry Rider Haggard Ayesha, the Return of She Print : Book1900-1945 'Fine day. Gym balances almost done. No letters. Read the Green Flag by Doyle. Ev Bridge. Play improving.' William Thomas Arthur Conan Doyle The Green Flag Print : Book1900-1945 'Monday. No letters ... 11 Parade 11.30 Gym. Walked about. Read Handy Andy by Sam Lover. Irish rot. Little French more bridge.' William Thomas Samuel Lover Handy Andy Print : Book1900-1945 'Bought mackintosh 29m knife 3. Heavy snow. Read Harry Dale's Jockey Wild Rose by Nat Gould ... Herring for breakfast.' William Thomas Nat Gould Harry Dale's Jockey "Wild Rose", Her Life and Adve... Print : Book1900-1945 'Friday. Cold + wet under foot. Frenchman fainted after bath. Bridge. Still losing. Fr. + read The Fighting Chance by RW Chambers.' William Thomas Robert W. Chambers The Fighting Chance Print : Book1900-1945 'Thursday. Lovely day. Walked about good deal. Pollard arrived. Fr. Read A Fleet in Being by Kipling. All well.' William Thomas Rudyard Kipling A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Chan... Print : Book1900-1945 'Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read "The Continental Times" Bundle of drivel lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment... William Thomas Continental Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read "The Continental Times" Bundle of drivel lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment... William Thomas Bithia M. Croker The Old Cantonment: With Other Stories of India an... Print : Book1900-1945 'No parcel aft. French. Supposed to play Rugger ... Ev bridge. Won. Read Reins of Chance by C Ranger Gull.' William Thomas Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull The Reins of Chance Print : Book1900-1945 'Rawlinson sore leg. Wrote a letter home asking for biscuits &c. Read The Wayfarers by JC Snaith.' William Thomas John Collis Snaith The Wayfarers Print : Book1900-1945 '11.30 service. Rather depressed. Ev Bridge Won. Read the Wayfarers & the Country of the Blind by HG Wells.' William Thomas John Collis Snaith The Wayfarers Print : Book1900-1945 '11.30 service. Rather depressed. Ev Bridge Won. Read the Wayfarers & the Country of the Blind by HG Wells.' William Thomas Herbert George Wells The Country of the Blind Print : Book1900-1945 'Paxton has a bet of a dinner that war will be over by 1st July. So Bridge. Read Under Two Flags by Ouida.' William Thomas Maria Louise Ram Under Two Flags Print : Book1900-1945 'Received a parcel of four books from ? The Farringdons by Ellen Thornycroft Fowler Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren Tommy & Co by Jerome K Jerome Donovan by ... William Thomas Alfred Ollivant Owd Bob Print : Book1900-1945 'Fri[.] Lovely day. As usual. Tired of it all. Read "Three Men on a bummel" by Jerome K Jerome.' William Thomas Jerome K. Jerome Three Men on the Bummel Print : Book1800-1849 'I am reading Sismondi's French History and I am glad to find it is very interesting and pleasant reading...' Fanny Allen J.C.L. de Sismondi The History of the French Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Cold day ... angry ... Reading Experiences in Fr-Ge War 1870 by Archibald Forbes.' William Thomas Archibald Forbes My Experiences of the War Between France and Germa... Print : Book1800-1849 'We are near the end of Macauley's 'History', and it is very entertaining reading.' Fanny Allen Thomas Babington Macauley History of England Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been reading and enjoying Sydney Smith's 'Moral Philosophy', which Mrs Smith sent me this winter, and I find it a delightful book.' Fanny Allen Sydney Smith Moral Philosophy Print : Book1900-1945 '10 a.m. Service. Read Mrs Murphy & also a Rolling Stone by BM Croker. Walked a little. All's well.' William Thomas Barry Pain Mrs Murphy Print : Book1900-1945 '10 a.m. Service. Read Mrs Murphy & also a Rolling Stone by BM Croker. Walked a little. All's well.' William Thomas Bithia M. Croker A Rolling Stone Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Mrs Murphy by Frank Richardson William Thomas Barry Pain Mrs Murphy Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Mrs Murphy by Frank Richardson William Thomas William Wymark Jacobs Ship's Company Print : Book1800-1849 'I found him in ecstasy over your husband's book. He said it was the most attractive reading he had met with; that notwithstanding his ignorance of natural history he fou... J.C.L. Sismondi Charles Darwin Journal of researches into the geology and natural... Print : Book1900-1945 Tues. Sent letter to Findlay. Fine day. Nil by mail. Read 2535 Mayfair by Frank Richardson.' William Thomas Frank Richardson 2535 Mayfair Print : Book1900-1945 'Thurs. Nil by mail. Read Red Eve by Ryder Haggard.' William Thomas Henry Rider Haggard Red Eve Print : Book1900-1945 '10 [a.m.] service then walked ... Read Sea Urchins by Jacobs.' William Thomas William Wymark Jacobs Sea Urchins Print : Book1900-1945 'Read South Sea Tales by Jack London.' William Thomas Jack London South Sea Tales Print : Book1900-1945 'Wed. Not a good day. No letter ... Feeling weak and done to the world. William Thomas Jack London Call of the Wild Print : Book1800-1849 'There is a new edition of Mme Sevigne, 12 octavo vols. of which I read every one,
and with delight...' Jessie Sismondi Sevigne de, Madame Letters of Madame Sevigne to her daughters and her... 1900-1945 'Mon. Nil [i.e., no post]. Gym. Hurt finger. Read The Orange Lady by Bailey.' William Thomas Henry Christopher Bailey My Lady of Orange Print : Book1900-1945 'Fri. Nil [i.e., no post]. Read The Vultures by Merriman.' William Thomas Henry Seton Merriman The Vultures Print : Book1800-1849 'Mme de Simiane's letters are worth reading, but in hers one perceives the contrast of the 'bel
esprit' of the Province and one of the Capital.' Jessie Sismondi Simiane [unknown] 1900-1945 'Read Simon Dale by Anthony Hope. William Thomas Anthony Hope Simon Dale Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Simon Dale by Anthony Hope. William Thomas Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler The Wisdom of Folly Print : Book1900-1945 'Mon. Nil [i.e., no post]. Sent a PC home. Read "The Witness for the Defence" by AEW Mason.' William Thomas A. E. W. Mason The Witness for the Defence Print : Book1900-1945 'There is no real objection to marrying a woman with a fortune but there is to marrying a fortune with a woman.' William Thomas George Horace Lorimer Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son Print : Book1900-1945 'Parcels from home and Bess. Read "Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son" by George Horace Lorimer.' William Thomas George Horace Lorimer Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son Print : Book1800-1849 '... I was too severe on Newman ... There are many striking, wise and good things in the first part
of his book, so that the latter falls on you with the shock of a sh... Jessie Sismondi Francis William Newman The Soul Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Count Hannibal by Stanley Weyman ... Aft. Rugger. Officers 4 Men 3.' William Thomas Stanley John Weyman Count Hannibal Print : Book1900-1945 'Read The Sands of Pleasure by Montmartre.' William Thomas Filson Young The Sands of Pleasure Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Nil. [i.e., no mail]. Read The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.' William Thomas Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands Print : Book1900-1945 'Wed. Lovely day. Won at bridge. Nil by mail. Read Dialstone Lane by Jacobs.' William Thomas William Wymark Jacobs Dialstone Lane Print : Book1900-1945 Thurs. Lovely day. Read Lost World by Conan Doyle. Nil [i.e., no mail]. William Thomas Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Mr Justice Raffles".' William Thomas Ernest William Hornung Mr Justice Raffles Print : Book1900-1945 'Thurs. Letter from Bess. Sent PC home. Read "Bad Times" Ireland by George A. Birmingham. Game of rounders.' William Thomas George A. Birmingham The Bad Times Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Morn. Service. Cold much better. Read a Knight on Wheels by "Ian Hay". Card from Findlay. Much fighting on West.' William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.) A Knight on Wheels Print : Book1900-1945 'Read the Poison Belt by A. Conan Doyle.' William Thomas Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Daily Mail Year Book".' William Thomas The Daily Mail Year Book Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "The Right Stuff" by Ian Hay.' William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.) The Right Stuff Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Welcome May. Letter from home. Read "The Right Stuff" by Ian Hay ... Up 62 in bridge. Thunder Storm.' William Thomas Ian Hay (pseud.) The Right Stuff Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Nil [i.e., no mail]. Reading Recits d'un Soldat.' William Thomas Amédée Archard Recits d'un Soldat Print : Book1900-1945 'Tues. PC from Registrar. Read the Right of Way by Sir Gilbert Parker.' William Thomas Gilbert Parker The Right of Way Print : Book1900-1945 'Letter from home May 5th . Roullette -5. Read Slave of Lamp by Merriman.' William Thomas Henry Seton Merriman The Slave of the Lamp Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Nil. Read "Courtship of Morris ——" by AEW Mason.' William Thomas A. E. W. Mason The Courtship of Maurice Buckler Print : Book1900-1945 'Rumours that Italy have declared war. Read Tropical Tales by "Dolf Wyllard". Ev Roulette.' William Thomas Dolf Wyllarde Tropical Tales and Others Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Famous Modern Battles" by [ ]. Ev. Bridge.' William Thomas Andrew Hilliard Atteridge Famous Modern Battles Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "White Fang" by Jack London." William Thomas Jack London White Fang Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Thief in Night Hornung. Ev Roulette.' William Thomas Ernest William Hornung A Thief in the Night Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Read "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde. Ev Roulette.' William Thomas Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. read "Virginia of the Rhodesians" by Cynthia Stockley. Miserable day.' William Thomas Cynthia Stockley Virginia of the Rhodesians Print : Book1900-1945 'Reading The Career of Beauty Darling by Dolf Wyllarde.' William Thomas Dolf Wyllarde The Career of Beauty Darling Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Rather depressed. No go. Reading Pickwick Papers &c.' William Thomas Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Print : Book1900-1945 'Read ... Knave of Diamonds by Ella [ ].' William Thomas Ethel Dell Knave of Diamonds Print : Book1900-1945 'Parcel from Pemb. [Pembrokeshire] War Fund. Worked on tennis court ... Read Old Wives Tale and Anna of Five Towns (Arnold Bennett).' William Thomas Arnold Bennett The Old Wives' Tale Print : Book1900-1945 'Parcel from Pemb. [Pembrokeshire] War Fund. Worked on tennis court ... Read Old Wives Tale and Anna of Five Towns (Arnold Bennett).' William Thomas Arnold Bennett Anna of the Five Towns Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Reading cursed strike in Wales.' William Thomas unknown unknown [Item on Welsh strikes] Unknown 1900-1945 'Read Round the Fire Stories by Conan Doyle. Joined the Library. Started Lettres de Mon Moulin Par Alphonse Daudet. No sign of peace. Will it last another year 2:1 it wil... William Thomas Arthur Conan Doyle Round the Fire Stories Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Round the Fire Stories by Conan Doyle. Joined the Library. Started Lettres de Mon Moulin Par Alphonse Daudet. No sign of peace. Will it last another year 2:1 it wil... William Thomas Alphonse Daudet Lettres du Mon Moulin Print : Book1900-1945 'Reading The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. Betting in Holland 10:1 that War will be over this year.' William Thomas Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda Print : Book1900-1945 'Showery. Read Truth about an Author ... Letter from Bess.' William Thomas Arnold Bennett The Truth About an Author Print : Book1900-1945 'Wrote a letter home asking for statement of accounts ... Many Fr. and Russians (Baltic) arrived. Read Scarlet Pimpernel.' William Thomas Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel Print : Book1900-1945 'Mon. 9-11 Tennis[.] Weak. Then read Eldorado by Baroness Orczy. No letter. [Thomas then lists debts incurred in that day's round of roulette games.] William Thomas Baroness Orczy El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. No letter. No parcel ... read Mrs Wiggs of Cabbage Patch.' William Thomas Alice Caldwell Rice Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Print : Book1900-1945 'Mon. No letter. No parcel. Read Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett.' William Thomas Arnold Bennett Buried Alive Print : Book1900-1945 'Tues. Received letter from no one[.] Damnation[.] Reading Man & Superman by Bernard Shaw.' William Thomas George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Print : Book1900-1945 'Wed. Nil. Marriage is popular because it combines the maxm of temptation with the maxm of opportunity.' William Thomas George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Read Play You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw & Odd Things by Dolf Wyllarde. Ev Badminton with Bolton.' William Thomas George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell Print : Book1900-1945 'Sat. Read Play You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw & Odd Things by Dolf Wyllarde. Ev Badminton with Bolton.' William Thomas Dolf Wyllarde Things Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Read "The Crystal Stopper" by Maurice Blanc ... Unable to play Badminton.' William Thomas Maurice LeBlanc The Crystal Stopper Print : Book1900-1945 'Tues. Parcel from Pemb. ... Read The Ashes of Vengeance by Sommerville.' William Thomas H. B. Somerville Ashes of Vengeance: A Romance of Old France Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. Nil. Read A Trap to Catch a Dream.' William Thomas Dion Clayton Calthrop A Trap to Catch a Dream Print : Book1900-1945 'Fri. Read America the War by Hugo Münsterberg. Roulette +1.50 for Sat.' William Thomas Hugo Münsterberg The War and America Print : Book1900-1945 'Mon. Very few letters. None for me. All well. Read Naval Occasions by Bartimeus. V Good.' William Thomas Bartimeus (pseud.) Naval Occasions and Some Traits of the Sailor-Man Print : Book1900-1945 'Sun. As usual. Walking Round and Reading.' William Thomas unknown unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'I had very little leisure time to lie with mother but read in the evening.' Anne Jenkins unknown unknown unknown Unknown 1900-1945 'I received a card from the war in France from Lieutenant E. R. Jones, who is on service out there, with the few words ... "I am quite well".' Anne Jenkins E. R. Jones [postcard] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'I received a very long & most interesting letter from Lieut. E. R. Jones from Marseilles France where he is stationed with the Indian troops who are on field service.' Anne Jenkins E. R. Jones [letter] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'I went to town in the evening Jack in school brought budget home. I read a little after supper. Mother feeling very comfortable.' Anne Jenkins Unknown 1900-1945 'Jack read in the evening — I managed to get a look at the budget.' Anne Jenkins Budget Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I read a little after supper also Gwen & Jack.' Anne Jenkins unknown Unknown 1900-1945 'I plucked a couple of fowls Jack helped 1 for Miss Thomas Cambrian house another for brother John. I also read a little before retiring.' Anne Jenkins unknown Unknown 1900-1945 'I felt too tired for much reading. Gwen did some sewing after supper.' Anne Jenkins unknown Unknown 1900-1945 'Gwen's hand is improving. I applied some carbonate of soda to [indecipherable] having read about in a medical book.' Anne Jenkins unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'I looked over the Budget before sending it away to India for Milly Jones.' Anne Jenkins Budget Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I have the "Cambrian News" sent to me every week so I am able to read of the good work you and Friends are doing to Cheer up the Aber[ystwyth] Boys out here.' W. Joseph Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'The night before the coming of the first parcel, I was reading the same news in the Aber papers: how that first this one and then that one had received parcels of cigare... E. C. Benson Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'It may interest you to know that I have at last succeeded in meeting an Aber boy and one too whose name I note in the last issue of the Cambrian News acknowledging a gif... E. C. Benson Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I am writing these few lines to let you know that I received your Cambrian News, and also the ciggarretes [sic], they went round to all the Aber boys, which they gratefu... Arthur Jones Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'It makes me feel lonely at times when I read the letters in the Cam. News from some of the Aber. boys, as they all seem to have some Aber. boys with them but I'm on my o... Fred Hollin Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I haven't meet [sic] any Aber Boys out here yet only A Potts of North Parade, & we were stationed in the same place for about 3 weeks & not knowing about him until I rec... Fred Hollin Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'How sorry I was to learn through the Cambrian News of poor Lieut. Oswald Green's death, also Lieut. C. Ellis.' Robert Bevan Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I see by the Camb. News that J. Thomas has received the D.C.M. + I hope there will be a few more Aber boys who ill come home with the same honour.' H. L. Powell Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'The men of my section — with whom I shared its contents — had previously heard & read in the "C.N." of the charitable disposition of the people of dear old Aber., & with... Robert W. Ellis Cambrian News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'It was The Waste Land that compelled recognition... The title, we know, comes from Miss J. L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, the theme of which is anthropological... T. S. Eliot Jessie L. Weston From Ritual to Romance Print : Book1850-1899 'Mrs Sydney Smith is affectionate and kind as it is possible to be. She gives me all her husband's papers and correspondence to look over and read...' Fanny Allen Sydney Smith [papers and correspondence] 1850-1899 '... I have been idle, but rather too busy to write, our leisure hours being taken up with reading Sydney's "Memoirs".' Fanny Allen Sydney Smith Selections from the writings of the Rev. Sydney Sm... Print : Book1850-1899 'I am going on with my reading of Shakespeare's historical plays, and yesterday I came on the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, and the death of Beaufort; and Tennyson... Fanny Allen William Shakespeare 2 Henry VI Print : Book1850-1899 'I am going on with my reading of Shakespeare's historical plays, and yesterday I came on the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, and the death of Beaufort; and Tennyson... Fanny Allen Alfred, Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been reading Wallace in "the Academy" ... in future histories of science the Wallace-Darwin episode will form one of the few bright points among rival claimants..... Erasmus Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace [articles in the 'Academy'] 1850-1899 'I do not know whether you touch C. Voysey's writings. I was pleased with his last discourse, "Man the only Revelation of God".' Fanny Allen Charles Voysey Man the only Revelation of God 1850-1899 'Our drive with Carlyle was interesting ... he talked about a number of things, especially about his 'French Revolution', which I happened to be reading.' William Darwin Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution 1800-1849 '...what do you think Mitford's 'Greece' has made me begin, the 'Iliad' by Cowper which we were talking of.'
Charles Darwin Homer The Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 'I am also reading an English translation of Mme de Sevigne and like it very much.' Charles Darwin Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné Letters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and h... Print : Book1800-1849 'On the 17 February, 1856, ''Finished Guy Mannering'' was entered in her diary. This means my father finished reading it aloud to us. These evening readings to the childr... Charles Darwin Walter Scott Guy Mannering Print : Book1800-1849 'On the 17 February, 1856, ''Finished Guy Mannering'' was entered in her diary. This means my father finished reading it aloud to us. These evening readings to the childr... The Darwin family Walter Scott Guy Mannering Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been greatly interested by the second article in the 'Spectator', and by Wallace's long article in the 'Academy'. I see I have had no influence on him, and his Re... Charles Darwin Spectator Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have been greatly interested by the second article in the 'Spectator', and by Wallace's long article in the 'Academy'. I see I have had no influence on him, and his Re... Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace [article in the 'Academy'] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'My favourite books were historical novels, and of these my grandfather's works took first place. Of all his works 'Harold' was my favourite'. Emily Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton Harold Print : Book1850-1899 '...my father read aloud. He was a beautiful reader and I enjoyed much of what he read, but I have to confess that I got terribly bored by his own long narrative poems...... Emily Lytton Robert Lytton Print : Book1850-1899 'I have often read the bit of Wordsworth that you quote ['She was a Phantom of
Delight'], and am very fond of it, and now I shall love it more and feel all that you
... Emily Lytton William Wordsworth She was a phantom of delight Print : Book1850-1899 'As Father and Betty were talking so much about it, I am reading "Martin Chuzzlewit"
again.' Emily Lytton Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit Print : Book1850-1899 '...Mother reads all the new French novels and Rudyard Kipling ... and though she
says they are so horrible she can hardly get through them, she will go on reading
th... Edith Lytton French novels Print : Book1850-1899 '...Mother reads all the new French novels and Rudyard Kipling ... and though she
says they are so horrible she can hardly get through them, she will go on reading
th... Edith Lytton Rudyard Kipling Print : Book1850-1899 'Father has made Con read out to him again yesterday Oscar Wilde's essay ('The
Decay of Lying') and ... he thought still more highly of it than before...' Constance Lytton Oscar Wilde The Decay of Lying Print : Book1850-1899 'Father has made Con read out to him again yesterday Oscar Wilde's essay ('The
Decay of Lying') and ... he thought still more highly of it than before...' Robert Lytton Oscar Wilde The Decay of Lying Print : Book1850-1899 'I perceive you mention "Looking Backwards". I write to save your life.
Don't DON'T DON'T read that most ... [ellipsis in original] of
shockers. I bough... Ernest Dowson Edward Bellamy Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Print : Book1850-1899 'Grant Allen’s”[The] Woman Who Did”, c’est un livre mort. Gr.[ant]Allen is a man of inferior
intelligence and his work is not art in any sense. “[The] Woman Who Did” ha... Joseph Conrad Grant Allen The Woman Who Did Print : Book1900-1945 'By the same post with the ordered copy of the E[nglish] R[eview]arrived the charming cahier
des vers ["High Germany"] inscribed to us both. I have been turning over it... Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford High Germany Print : Book1900-1945 "Thanks for the '1st men in the moon', I have already finished it and enjoyed it very much." Clive Staples Lewis H.G. Wells The First Men in the Moon Print : Book1900-1945 'Nevertheless, there is nothing that I should prize more than a nice edition of Kipling, whose
poems I am just beginning to read and to wonder why I never read them be... Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'It certainly is a grievous pity that Shakespeare filled Romeo and Juliet with those appalling
rhymes. But the worst thing in the play is old Capulet's preposterous spe... Clive Staples Lewis William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Print : Book1900-1945 'Still, it is a very fine tragedy. So is the Greek play that we are doing. It is quite unlike all that
stiff bombast which we are accustomed to associate with Greek tra... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '... that cold, dismal golf links that always reminds me of the moorland in "Locksley Hall".
Talking
about "Locksley Hall", I have discovered a tattered copy of Tenny... Clive Staples Lewis Alfred Tennyson In Memoriam and other poems Print : Book1900-1945 'I have here discovered an author exactly after my own heart, whom I am sure you would
delight in, W. B. Yeats. He writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty abou... Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Last week I got out of the library the works of our present poet laureate, Bridges, who did not
impress me a bit.' Clive Staples Lewis Robert Bridges [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'I have now struck better ground in Charlotte Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", which although
melodramatic like all her books, shapes very well indeed.' Clive Staples Lewis Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Print : Book1900-1945 'This week I have been reading a most remarkable book which has created a great
impression. it is "The Upton Letters", a series of letters from a school master at "Upto... Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Christopher Benson The Upton Letters Print : Book1900-1945 'I am at present engaged in reading Newman's poems; do you know them at all? They are very,
very delicate and pretty, and are like nothing more than one of those valuab... Clive Staples Lewis John Henry Newman Verses on Various Occasions Print : Book1900-1945 'I wonder did you notice the article on Nietzsche in last Sunday's Times Literary Supplement,
which demonstrates that although we have been told to regard Nietzsche as ... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] The Nietzschean Way Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'When one has set aside the rubbish that H. G. Wells always puts in, there remains a great
deal of original, thoughtful and suggestive work in it. The "Door in the Wall... Clive Staples Lewis Herbert George Wells The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Print : Book1900-1945 'I am now engaged in reading "Sense & Sensibility'. It is, undoubtedly, one of her best. Do you
remember the Palmer family?' Clive Staples Lewis Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1900-1945 'In Greek, I have started to read Homer's Iliad, of which, of course, you must have heard.
Although you don't know Greek & don't care for poetry, I cannot resist the te... Clive Staples Lewis Homer The Iliad Print : Book1900-1945 'He handed me over Crusius' Lexicon and, having told me to go through again as much as I
could of what he had done, left the room. It seems an odd method of teaching, b... Clive Staples Lewis Gottlieb Christian Crusius A Complete Greek and English Lexicon for the Poems... Print : Book1900-1945 'This week I have taken a course of A. C. Benson's essays, which have impressed me very
favourably indeed. Do you know them? He has a clear, simple, but melodious style... Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Christopher Benson [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Did you ever at Lurgan read the 4th Georgic? It is the funniest example of the colossal
ignorance of a great poet that I know. It's about bees, and Virgil's natural hi... Clive Staples Lewis Virgil The Georgics Print : Book1900-1945 'I am reading at present, for the second time, the Celtic plays of Yeats. I must try & get them
next time I am at home.' Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '...your criticism of the"Well". I quite see your point, and, of course, agree that the interests
of
the tale reach their climax in the great scene at the World's End... Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Well at the World's End Print : Book1900-1945 'Merriman is a far cry from the Brontes. Both of course are good, but while they should be
sipped with luxurious slowness in the winter evening, he may be read in a che... Clive Staples Lewis Henry Seton Merriman [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'I have nearly finished The Morte D'arthur. I am more pleased at having bought it every day,
as it has opened up a new world to me. I had no idea that the Arthurian leg... Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur Print : Book1900-1945 'I am glad to hear you have read Esmond: it is one of my favourite novels, and I hardly know
which to praise most, the wonderful, musical Queen Anne English, or the del... Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Henry Esmond Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading this week a book by Swinburne from the Library, a "Study on
Shakespeare". This is my first experience of his prose, and I think I shall make it the... Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles Swinburne A Study of Shakespeare Print : Book1900-1945 'I essayed a new author the other day whom we have often heard praised and of whom I hoped
great things — Landor: but the book I got, a series of imaginary letters call... Clive Staples Lewis Walter Savage Landor Pericles and Aspasia Print : Book1900-1945 'Did you read Lloyd George's speech the other day introducing the remark about the German
potato bread — "I fear that potato bread more than all Von Kluck's strategy". ... Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a] The Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'In the way of reading, I have been taking a course of "Poems and Ballads", which, with the
exception of the "Coign of a cliff" I had almost forgotten. It is rather ple... Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems and Ballads, Second Series Print : Book1900-1945 'Last week end was busily employed in reading through De Quincey's "Confessions" as a
whole,
for the first time, from which I derived great satisfaction. How much of ... Clive Staples Lewis Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater Print : Book1900-1945 'I bought yesterday a little shilling book about Wm. Morris, his life and his work, which is rather
interesting. To me, at least, for I am afraid you have given up that... Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Clutton-Brock William Morris: his Work and Influence Print : Book1900-1945 'I have just finished "Shirley"; which I think better than either "Jane Eyre" or "Villette". You must
read it.' Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte Brontë Shirley Print : Book1900-1945 '"The Roots of the Mountains" is the chief cause of my silence. It is not, however, in spite of
this,
nearly as good as the first volume of "The Well at the World's E... Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Roots of the Mountains Print : Book1900-1945 'Last week I got a copy of that little book of yours on Icelandic Sagas, which I found very
interesting, and as a result I have now bought a translation of the "Laxdael... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] Laxdaela Saga Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been devoting this week to the reading of Othello, which I like as well as any
Shakespeare play I have read. The part of Iago, to my mind, is something of a ble... Clive Staples Lewis William Shakespeare Othello Print : Book1900-1945 'I remember reading in a book called "The open Road" an extract from Hewlett's "Pan and the
Young Shepherd" which I thought splendid. Thanks to our Galahad's detestable... Clive Staples Lewis Edward Verrall Lucas The Open Road, a Book for Wayfarers Print : Book1900-1945 'P.S. Have begun the "Professor" and have read as far as the hero's arrival at Brussels. It is
shaping very well. I believe you have read it have you not - J' Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte Brontë The Professor Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading nothing since Othello but a translation from the Icelandic' Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'In Greek we have begun Demosthenes. Of course oratory is not a sort of literature that I
appreciate or understand in any language, so that I am hardly qualified to exp... Clive Staples Lewis Demosthenes [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading the "Faerie Queene" in Everymans both here and at home ever since I
left you.... of course it has dull and even childish passages, but on the whole... Clive Staples Lewis Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1900-1945 'After breakfast & a short walk we start work on Thucydides — a desperately dull and tedious
Greek historian.' Clive Staples Lewis Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading a horrible book of Jack London's called "The Jacket". If you come across [it]
anywhere, don't read it. it is about the ill-treatment in an American... Clive Staples Lewis Jack London The Star Rover Print : Book1900-1945 'I see no reason to congratulate the Times on its recruiting supplement in any way, nor the
country on the necessity (which it allows to remain) for such publications b... Clive Staples Lewis The Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I myself have been reading this week a book by a man named Love Peacock, of whom I had not
heard, but who seems to be famous. He was a contemporary of Lamb, Hazlitt, B... Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Love Peacock Headlong Hall Print : Book1900-1945 'I have also been reading in library copies, Schopenhauer's "Will and Idea".....[He] is abstruse
and depressing, but has some very interesting remarks on the theory of ... Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Idea Print : Book1900-1945 'I have also been reading in library copies... Swinburne's "Erechtheus" which is another tragedy
on Greek lines like "Atalanta", though not so good in my opinion.' Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles Swinburne Erechtheus: A Tragedy Print : Book1900-1945 'And while we are on the subject of the war, I am sure you have noticed the excellent blank
verse poem in this week's "Punch" entitled "Killed in Action". I read it wit... Clive Staples Lewis Rudolph Chambers Lehmann Killed in Action Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I have been reading again "The Well at the World's End", and it has completely ravished me.
There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the ha... Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Well at the World's End Print : Book1900-1945 'I... am going through an English literature of Kirk's by Andrew Lang. Lang is always charming
whatever he does - or "did" as we must unfortunately say, and this book i... Clive Staples Lewis Andrew Lang History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Sw... Print : Book1900-1945 'There has also been from the London Library a book called "Springs of Helicon" by Mackail —
you know, Professor of Poetry at Oxford and the man on William Morris. This... Clive Staples Lewis John William Mackail The Springs of Helicon: A Study in the Progress of... Print : Book1900-1945 'There is also a "Greek Literature" by Gilbert Murray, the bad verse-translator, which I have read
with dire anger, as he degrades Homer from a poet into a "question" a... Clive Staples Lewis Gilbert Murray A History of Ancient Greek Literature (Short Histo... Print : Book1900-1945 'I ... have also re-read Jane Eyre from beginning to end — it is a magnificent novel. Some of
those long, long dialogues between her and Rochester are really like duets... Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 'The other book — which I am denying myself to write to YOU, yes YOU of all people — is
from the library by Blackwood called "Uncle Paul". Oh, I have never read anythin... Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Blackwood The Education of Uncle Paul Print : Book1900-1945 'By the way, you should get that "Spirit of Man", Bridge's anthology, that everyone is talking
about. Mrs K. has it from the library at present: it is one of the pretti... Clive Staples Lewis Robert Bridges The Spirit of Man: an Anthology in English and Fre... Print : Book1900-1945 'Do you read Ruskin at all? I am sure you don't. Well I am reading a book of his at present called
"A joy for ever", which is charming, though I am not sure you would c... Clive Staples Lewis John Ruskin A Joy for Ever: (and Its Price in the Market): Bei... Print : Book1900-1945 'I have had a great literary experience this week. I have discovered yet another author to add
to our circle — our very own set: never since I first read "The well at t... Clive Staples Lewis George Macdonald Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women Print : Book1900-1945 'The "British Ballads" has come, and though I am awfully bucked with the edition — I can't think
why I didn't appreciate it before. This must be a triumph for you — the... Clive Staples Lewis Reginald Brimley Johnson The Book of British Ballads Print : Book1900-1945 'I hope you have read your Times Literary Supplement this week: do you see that the
commonwealth of letters is richer by a great new poet? Now let the stars retire for ... Clive Staples Lewis 'An Uncertain Voice' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Talking of books — you might ask, when do I talk of anything else — I have read and finished
"The Green Knight", which is absolutely top-hole: in fact the only fault I... Clive Staples Lewis Ernest John Brigham Kirtlan Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Rendered Literall... Print : Book1900-1945 '(1) I have started — don't be surprised — "Rob Roy", which I suppose you have read long ago.
I really don't know how I came to open it: I was looking for a book in the... Clive Staples Lewis Walter Scott Rob Roy Print : Book1900-1945 'I am rather surprised at your remark about "Persuasion", as it seemed to me very good —
though not quite in her usual manner. I mean it is more romantic and less hum... Clive Staples Lewis Jane Austen Persuasion Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I wish you would get that Academy book which one always finds in a dentist's waiting
room so that we could compare notes. If you do you must particularly notice "T... Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a] The Royal Academy Illustrated Print : Book1900-1945 'I went to a play that would have appealed to you — "Disraeli", which you will remember to have
seen reviewed in Punch's "At the play". If the real man was at all like ... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] 'At the Play: "Disraeli"' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 (1) 'With the Chaucer I am most awfully bucked: it is in the very best Everyman style —
lovely paper, strong boards, and — aren't you envious — not one but two bits of ... Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales Print : Book1900-1945 'In odd moments last week I read an excellent novel by — you'd never guess — Bernard Shaw.
It is called "Love among the Artists" and is published in Constable's shillin... Clive Staples Lewis George Bernard Shaw Love among the Artists: A Novel Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Never, never get a book bound. You will gather from this that "Tristan" has arrived and is
a complete and absolute failure.... True, it is some consolation to find... Clive Staples Lewis Joseph Bedier Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut, renouvele par Joseph... Print : Book1900-1945 (1)'What is nicer than to get a book — doubtful both about reading matter and edition, and
then to find both are topping?.... I have just had this pleasure in Sidney's ... Clive Staples Lewis Philip Sidney The Prose Works of Sir Philip Sidney Print : Book1900-1945 'I hope you noticed the leader in this week's Literary Supplement — on Edgar Allan Poe? I never
heard such affectation and preciosity; the man who thinks the "Raven" ta... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] 'Edgar Allan Poe' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Besides this [i.e. Sidney's "Arcadia"] I have read nothing lately, except a foolish modern novel
which I read at one sitting — or rather one lying on the sofa, this af... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'I am very glad to hear that you are getting to like Jason: I agree with you that the whole
description of Medea — glorious character — going out by night, and of her s... Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I have just started the "Argonautica" the Greek poem on the same subject,and though I
haven't got very far — only in fact to the launching of the Argo — it is shap... Clive Staples Lewis Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Can you guess what I have been reading this week? Of all things in the world "Pendennis"!
Isn't this the one you find too much for you? I am nearly through the fir... Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Pendennis, his Fortunes and Misfort... Print : Book1900-1945 'Did you see a long article in the Times Literary Supplement about the "Magic Flute" which is on
at the Shaftesbury? How I wish I could go up and hear it and also "Tris... Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a] Times Literary Supplement Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'The literary event of the week is our respected laureate's ode in the Times Literary
Supplement: truly a most remarkable production, though I am afraid like the honest... Clive Staples Lewis Robert Bridges Ode on the Tercentenary Commemoration of Shakespea... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 (1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of ... "John Silence" in the 7d. edition.... It fairly
swept me off my feet, so that on Saturday night I hardly dared to go upst... Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Blackwood John Silence, Physician Extraordinary Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of Milton's "Paradise Lost" — in the same edition as
my Mandeville.... Don't you love the Leopard witches? How you will love Mil... Clive Staples Lewis John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am awfully bucked about "Twelfth Night": I thought at the time you remember, that Heath
Robinson's illustrations were absolutely perfect — quite as good as Rackh... Clive Staples Lewis William Shakespeare Twelfth Night Print : Book1900-1945 'The journey home was absolutely damnable: I had to wait an hour at Letterkenny, and an hour
and a quarter at Strabane. You may judge of my boredom when I tell you that... Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a] The Novel Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'In the mornings in bed I am going over "Sense and Sensibility" again — which I had nearly
forgotten. Do you remember Mrs Jennings and Marianne Dashwood and the rest?' Clive Staples Lewis Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am still at The Newcomes...'
(2) 'Talking about stodge, I finished "The Newcomes" before leaving home, and certainly enjoyed
the end better than any parts excep... Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace Thackeray The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Print : Book1900-1945 'I should advise you to get the 2/6 volume containing Milton's minor poems, which I am now
reading.... I am at "Comus", which is an absolute dream of delight. I am sure... Clive Staples Lewis John Milton Paradise Regained Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I have also bought a 7d. Macmillan book by Algernon Blackwood called "Jimbo, a fantasy".
Although you have never mentioned it, I dare say you know there is such a ... Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Blackwood Jimbo, a Fantasy Print : Book1900-1945 'I have also re-read for the thousandth time "Rapunzel" and some other favourite bits of
Morris...' Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Defense of Guenevere and other Poems Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I have been reading again the second volume of Malory, especially the part of the
"Sangreal" which I had forgotten. With all its faults, in small doses this book i... Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur Print : Book1900-1945 '...through the week I have read an excellent novel of Vachell's "The Paladin" which you have
probably read too.' Clive Staples Lewis Horace Annesley Vachell The Paladin, as Beheld by a Woman of Temperament Print : Book1900-1945 (1) '...also dipped often into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Being entirely made up of conversation I
don't think it is a book to be read continuously, tho' it is very g... Clive Staples Lewis James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am at present reading a book whose scene is set in Oxford and which tells one a good
deal about the University (not Tom Brown), "Lady Connie" by Mrs. Humphrey Wa... Clive Staples Lewis Mary Augusta Ward Lady Connie Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am now, through the week, reading Scott's "Antiquary". I suppose you have read it long
ago: I am very pleased with it, especially the character of the Antiquary ... Clive Staples Lewis Walter Scott The Antiquary Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I wonder what a book called "Letters from Hell" published at 1/- by Macmillan would be
like?' (2) 'I have written up for "Letters from Hell" and it ought to be her... Clive Staples Lewis Valdemar Adolph Thisted Letters from Hell Print : Book1900-1945 'Talking of Kipling it is time you began him: try "Rewards & Fairies" and if the first story in it
"Cold Iron" doesn't knock you head over heels, I don't know what will... Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling Rewards and Fairies Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'We have all been plunged in misery here for the last week because no one can remember
the context or the author of a quotation that we all know as well as our own ... Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling [Untitled] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Many thanks for the "Spectator" which I shall certainly keep for the sake of the poem. It is, I
quite agree with you, a really notable piece of work, quite above the a... Clive Staples Lewis Frederick Samuel Boas Ulster on the Somme Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 (1) 'I am at present reading a book which you would enjoy, "The letters of Dorothy Osborne to
Sir William Temple.... They lived in Cromwell's time, and the letters are ... Clive Staples Lewis Dorothy Osborne Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple Print : Book1900-1945 (1) '... through reading Maeterlinck, to improve my French, too late at night, I have developed
a penchant for mystical philosophy' (2) 'My other reading — in French — ... Clive Staples Lewis Maurice Maeterlinck L'oiseau bleu Feerie en cinq actes et dix tableaux Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'The book you refer to is "How to Form a Literary Taste" by Arnold Bennett: the edition is
pretty but the book is not of any value. The very title — as if you set o... Clive Staples Lewis Arnold Bennett Literary Taste: How to Form It with Detailed Instr... Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I have read today ... some 10 pages of "Tristram Shandy" and am wondering whether I
like it. It is certainly the maddest book ever written.... It gives you the imp... Clive Staples Lewis Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema... Print : Book1900-1945 'I was very sorry to hear about the death of "A Student in arms", whose book I read last holidays
as you may remember. I never met anything exactly like it before, it i... Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey A Student in Arms Print : Book1900-1945 'Nothing in it however, [ie "A Student in Arms"], if I remember aright, quite reaches the level
of this last article, a wise and charming piece of work - and doubly so ... Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey 'Don't Worry' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I like last week's "Romance" by the Student in Arms very much - in some ways as much as the
other, tho' perhaps you will not agree with me.' Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey 'Romance' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'That is rather a fine article on Hakluyt in this week's Literary Supplement and a good deal of it
might stand as an apology - in the Newman sense of course — for my ho... Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a] Times Literary Supplement Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '... remember that nearly all your reading is confined to about 150 years of one particular
country.... And so, if you suddenly go back to an Anglo-Saxon gleeman's lay,... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] Beowulf Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am reading at present, what do you think? Our own friend "Pilgrim's Progress". It is one
of those books that are usually read too early to appreciate, and perhap... Clive Staples Lewis John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, 29 August 1831
"I have been reading Dawes’s Miscellanea Critica ^all the morning and writing some of his
emendations in the margin of my Callimachus. They... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Richard Dawes Miscellanea Critica Print : Book1900-1945 'As a matter of fact I am at present reading a real "old french" romance "The High History of the
Holy Graal" translated in the lovely "Temple Classics". If I dared to ... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] The High History of the Holy Graal Print : Book1900-1945 'I am also reading Chaucer's minor poems ("World's Classics", a scrubby edition but the only one
I can find) and am half way through "The House of Fame", a dream poem h... Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Creseyde Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Your verdict upon Macdonald's tale was worthy of so shrewd and serious a gentleman as
yourself...' (2) 'And talking about books I am surprised that you don't say m... Clive Staples Lewis George Macdonald The Golden Key Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I wonder does the "Wayfarer" series publish my latest discovery - the most glorious novel
(almost) that I have ever read.... It is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House wit... Clive Staples Lewis Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Unfortunately we have not got a complete set of Scott here - only odd Everyman copies....
What is "Guy Mannering" like? The alternative title of "The Astrologer" s... Clive Staples Lewis Walter Scott Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer Print : Book1900-1945 'We have had a book of Yeats' prose out of the library, and this has revived my taste for things
Gaelic and mystic. Ask Mullan's if he knows a book called "The Rosacrut... Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 (1) ' ... I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master of University.... What
pleased me most was the masses upon masses of books in his house: among which... Clive Staples Lewis Lucius Apuleius The Story of Cupid and Psyche Print : Book1900-1945 'After wandering about the place and buying a second-hand copy of the "Gesta Romanorum"
(of which more anon) I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master o... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] Gesta Romanorum Print : Book1900-1945 (1) '... you simply must read this book of Maeterlinck's on death. It is full of the most interesting
stuff, and even when you don't believe his theories they always ha... Clive Staples Lewis Maurice Maeterlinck La Mort Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Just before supper I finished the 2nd volume of Mackail's "Life of W.M." There is nothing
nicer than to lay aside a book with a certain satisfaction at getting it ... Clive Staples Lewis John William Mackail The Life of William Morris Print : Book1900-1945 'Having finished Morris I am reading a silly book of Anstey's "The Talking Horse" before settling
down to Macaulay. I never heard you speak of Anstey, but you should re... Clive Staples Lewis F. Anstey The Talking Horse and Other Tales Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'You say "Arethusa" is lovely: have you bought it or got a copy from the library? In any
case I am very glad you have started it. Isn't Omobono a lovely character, ... Clive Staples Lewis Francis Marion Crawford Arethusa Print : Book1900-1945 'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night
except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact... Clive Staples Lewis Charles Nodier Contes Fantastiques Print : Book1900-1945 'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night
except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact... Clive Staples Lewis François-Marie Arouet Voltaire Contes Choisis. Preface de Gustave Lanson Print : Book1900-1945 'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night
except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact... Clive Staples Lewis George Sand [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I have now made a good start on my second volume of Macaulay, which is admirable. What
a nice man James must have been!' (2) 'I am nearly through Macaulay Vol. II,... Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England from the Accession of James... Print : Book1900-1945 'Before starting this [ie Macaulay's "History of England", v. 2] I read in a library copy two of F.
W. Bain's Indian Tales "The Descent of the Sun" & "The Heifer of the... Clive Staples Lewis Francis William Bain The Descent of the Sun Print : Book1900-1945 'Italian quite comes up to K's promises about its easiness and on Sunday I read the first 200 lines
of Dante with much success. By the end of term I should be able to r... Clive Staples Lewis Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am reading such a splendid book in German, by a man called Chamisso "Peter
Schlemihl's Wundersame Geschichte" (The Amazing Adventures of Peter Schlemihl). It is ... Clive Staples Lewis Adelbert von Chamisso Peter Schlemihls Wundersame Geschichte Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I also bought a French Book on the Poetry of the middle ages — so you see dear Oxford is a
dangerous place for a book lover.' (2) 'I am now reading in French this ... Clive Staples Lewis Gaston Paris La Litterature francaise au moyen age (XI-XIV siec... Print : Book1900-1945 ‘Well, here I am, and a soldier … to go to Northampton on Monday for the First
Reserve … Tonight I have been reading the Georgian Poetry Book, and it is
this that mad... Ivor Bertie Gurney Edward Marsh Georgian Poetry Print : Book1850-1899 'I judged people's social importance mainly by the length of their
adventures.
This idea may have come from the stable-boy, for he was my principal
friend. He
had... unknown unknown [book of Orange Rhymes] 1800-1849 Diary entry, 14 June 1831:
"He [Mr. Boyd] was not in good spirits. No more was his companion – I talked however as well
as I could, - & read as well as I could beside... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, 14 June 1831:
"While we were reading the Seven Chiefs, he observed that tho’ Plutarch preferred it to the
other Tragedies of Aeschylus, he could not hel... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 15, 1831:
"The Cliffes brought me The Seven Chiefs which Mrs. Best had ordered from Worcester at my
request; and I have been reading over again what... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem contra Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, August 22, 1831: "And then we read merely the Greek of a passage in the poem
next to my favorite poem; and then Mr. Boyd gave me Meleager’s ode to Spring... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Meleager Ode to Spring Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, 17 August 1831:
“Finished Cebes and began Theophrastus Clouds - & imitation of yesterday thunderstorm; and
fortunately for my nerves, Virgil to Homer!” Elizabeth Barrett Browning Cebes Tablet of Cebes Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, August 17, 1831:
"Finished Cebes and began Theophrastus. Clouds -& imitation of yesterday's thunderstorm; and
fortunately for my nerves, Virgil to Homer!... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Theophrastus [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 16, 1831:
"I heard Stormy & Georgie read Homer & Xenophon – as usual, – tho’ I have not yet
commemorated them here -& I prepared a part of the first... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 21, 1831:
"Well – but we began to read the Seven Chiefs out of Blomfield’s edition; & were very happy." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 24, 1831:
"Afterwards we returned to Mr. Boyd’s own room, & read Aeschylus again. We read the scene
after the first chorus of the Seven Chief, & bot... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 25, 1831:
"Read Aeschylus – the part I read yesterday, -& wrote down all that I cd. remember of Mr.
Boyd’s saying upon it." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 27, 1831:
"I read Pindar's first Olympic today -& thought of tomorrow – tomorrow’s fatal decisive letter." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar First Olympian Ode Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, January 21, 1832:
"Read the 7th Olympic ode – about Agesias, & Rhodes" Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar Seventh Olympian Ode Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, March 1, 1832:
"In the evening I read a part of Pindar’s 8th Olympic. And de Genlis’s story of Delphine in the
Tales of the castle, which I like because ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar Eighth Olympian Ode Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, April 6, 1832:
"I have been reading Pindar’s 9th Olympiad, & must go back to it. Pindar’s subjects are of little
interest to my mind" Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar Ninth Olympian Ode Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, April 17, 1832:
"Read the two last Olympic odes today, - except a few lines of the last but one. The very last, to
the Graces, is most harmonious & beaut... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar Olympian Odes Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, April 19, 1832:
"Wrote to Mr. Boyd about the parallel passage in Synesius & Anacreon, - & nearly went thro’ the
whole of the first & Second pythian odes.... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar First and second Pythian odes Print : Book1900-1945 'I should like to have three more copies of the
poem, if you will kindly send them. I give
sparingly—to those only who are able to
appreciate good poetry, and you ... William Henry Hudson Lascelles Abercrombie The Sale of Saint Thomas [The First Act of a Play ... Print : Book1900-1945 'I enjoyed your tales, the uneasy ones ["Tales of
the Uneasy"]—nasty on any night before going to
bed. I wonder which famous case you were
thinking of when y... William Henry Hudson Violet Hunt Tales of the Uneasy Print : Book1500-1599 ' A Jesuit reported on a Puritan meeting in the late 1580s: "Each of them had his own Bible, and sedulously turned the pages and looked up the texts cited by the preacher... Puritans The Bible Print : Book1500-1599 From thence he was sent to Eaton, where he was educated other six years, during all which time he was more than ordinarily studious and industrious; for when other boyes ... William Gouge [unknown] Print : Book1500-1599 'He continued in the Colledge for the space of nine years, and in all that time (except he went forth a Town to his friends) he was never absent from morning Prayers in t... William Gouge Scriptures Print : Book1500-1599 In his Childe-hood he was so addicted to those means which his Parents applied him unto, for the implanting in him the seeds of good Literature, that he rather needed a ... Thomas Gataker [various] Print : Book1500-1599 In this Family, partly by his own inclination, and partly by the encouragement of the Governours thereof, he performed Family Duties for the instruction and edification ... Thomas Gataker Scriptures Print : Book1500-1599 About the same time also he read over St. Augustines Meditations, which so affected him, that he wept often in the reading of them.
James Usher St Augustine St. Augustines Meditations Unknown 1500-1599 At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of the four Empires, and some other Authors, he drew f... James Usher Sleidans Book of the Four Empires Print : Book1500-1599 At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of the four Empires, and some other Authors, he drew f... James Usher [various unknown] Print : Book1500-1599 Before he was Bachelor of Arts he read Stapletons Fortress of the Faith, and therein finding how confidently he asserted Antiquity for the Popish Tenets, withall, brandin... James Usher Stapleton Fortress of the Faith Print : Book1600-1699 In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book or other) in the Anatomy of Melancholy: and coming to... John Gadbury Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy Print : Book1600-1699 August 14. I had read Mr Whately of the new birth, and it affected mee exceedingly, and put mee upon prayer, and search of my selfe Isaac Archer William Whately The New-Birth:or, a treatise of regeneration, deli Print : Book1600-1699 May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits mee), wherin he sayeth there is to be a disowning, a... Isaac Archer Richard Sibbes The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax Print : Book1600-1699 May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits mee), wherin he sayeth there is to be a disowning, a... Isaac Archer Richard Alleine Vindiciae Pietatis; or, a Vindication of Godliness Print : Book1600-1699 After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and good and godly tracts John Bramston The Bible Print : Book1600-1699 After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and good and godly tracts John Bramston various unknown [religious titles] Print : Book1600-1699 That was carried by Tymothie Code,a scrivenor in Chelmsford, to the coffeehouse, and there read by on Mr. Johnson, curat at that tyme of the parish, in presence of Thomas... Print : Pamphlet1600-1699 He [The earl of Oxford] desired me (companie being with him) to take home the paper, and advise him what he was to do. When I had perused it, I wayted on him again. . . John Bramston Instructions Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 His words were not manie, yet he read all he sayd to us, a thing very unbecoming the chaire, and which I never before did see. Sir John Trevor Sir John Trevor [untitled] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 as I find reported by Sir Nicholas Hyde, the Lord Justice of the K.B., which I with my hand transcribed, and have by me John Bramston Sir Nicholas Hyde [untitled] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 Camden does credit this and repeates a tryal one made of forceing a Duck into one of those falls, which came out at the other side by Moles with its feathers allmost all ... Celia Fiennes William Camden Britannia Print : Book1600-1699 he was required to answer to some of the articles, viz. the signing and subscribing the two opinions; but I thinck it was not delivered to the house, for I find it engros... John Bramston John Bramston [untitled] Unknown 1600-1699 In the year 1622 he was chosen reader, and read upon the statute 32 H.8, cap 2, concerning lymitations. . . .After the recept of the writreturnable the tearme following h... John Bramston Statute 32 Henry VIII cap. 2 and statute 13 Eliz. ... Manuscript : Codex1600-1699 In the order and government of his Family, he was very exemplary. His house was another Bethel, for he did not onely constantly upon conscientious principles use morning... William Gouge Scriptures Print : Book1600-1699 For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in t... William Gouge Bible Print : Book1600-1699 For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in t... William Gouge [various] Print : Book1600-1699 And a Sermon of Mr. H. Hickman's at Oxford, much moved her (on Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not save them, &c.) The D... Margaret Charlton Unknown 1600-1699 When I was at any time from home, she would not pray in the Family, though she could not endure to be without it. She would privately talk to the servants, and read good ... Margaret Baxter [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and repeated part, and sung part of a Psalm her self. T... Richard Baxter Bible Print : Book1700-1799 Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late. Gertrude Savile James Shirley The Gratefull Servant. A Comedie... Print : Book1700-1799 'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.' George Austen Francis Lathom Midnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incident... Print : Book1700-1799 'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings that we should purchase the only one of Egerton's w... Jane Austen Samuel Egerton Brydges Arthur Fitz-Albini: a Novel Print : Book1700-1799 'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.' Jane Austen James Boswell Tour to the Hebrides Print : Book1700-1799 'There was a very long list of Arrivals here, in the Newspaper yesterday, so that we need not immediately dread absolute solitude.' Jane Austen Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who "held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head", and read the "Spectator" to her daughters while her "... Hester Thrale Joseph Addison The Spectator Print : Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form1700-1799 'Landscape gardener Humphry Repton's wife read to him while he drew''. Humphry Repton unknown unknown Unknown 1700-1799 'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's works".' Thomas Moore Maria Edgeworth [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".' Dr Delany Eusebius Life of Constantine the Great Print : Book1700-1799 'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".' Patrick Delany Tobias Smollett Peregrine Pickle Print : Book1700-1799 'In 1753 Catherine Talbot stayed with the Berkeley family and participated enthusiastically in readings of "Sir Charles Grandison".' Catherine Talbot Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison Print : Book1700-1799 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A... Wully Carruthers Alan Ramsay The Gentle Shepherd Print : Book1700-1799 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A... Wully Carruthers [ancient and modern history] Print : Book1700-1799 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A... Wully Carruthers Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison Print : Book1700-1799 'Aucterderran, Fife: In common with the rest of Scotland, the vulgar are, for their station, literate, beyond all other nations. Puritanic and abstruse divinity come in f... the people of Auchterderran, Fife [Puritanic and abstruse divinity texts] Print : Book1700-1799 'They likewise read, occasionally, a variety of other books unconnected with such subjects [religion]... Although the parish consists wholly of the poorer ranks of societ... the people of Auchterderran, Fife [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'. the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'. the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [history] Print : Book1700-1799 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'. the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [magazines] Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'. the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [religious books] Print : Book1700-1799 'Wigtown:...Not only the farmers ,but many of the tradesmen, read the newspapers' the people of Wigtown [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Read the News John Yeoman Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Nothing Remarkable happend the Morning Noon nor evening of that Day, only Read the play called the Scool for Wifes. John Yeoman Hugh Kelly The School for Wives Unknown 1700-1799 I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captains over the Men, Esspeatialy the Sick, in a Most Shoc... John Yeoman Tobias Smollett Roderick Random Unknown 1700-1799 Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick Random John Yeoman Tobias Smollett Roderick Random Unknown 1700-1799 after [a morning walk] I Read the News. John Yeoman Print : Newspaper1700-1799 home [from going to see the King's weekly procession at Kew] & Read the News John Yeoman Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Last night sleep departed, I read almost all night Nelsons life of Bp Bull James Clre James Clegg Robert Nelson Life of Dr. George Bull Print : Book1700-1799 At night I read some of the lives and characters of of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] conclu... James Clegg Richard Baxter The Saints Everlasting Rest. Print : Book1700-1799 At night I read some of the lives and characters of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] concluded... James Clegg Richard Baxter An abridgement of Mr Baxter's life and times. With Print : Book1700-1799 May 24th. My black mare fell down and threw me over her head, but God be praysed I got not the least harm. I rode a slow trot reading the Northampton news paper [...] it ... William Coe The Northampton Mercury Print : Newspaper1700-1799 At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book. Margaret 'Peggy' Turner Samuel Richardson Clarissa Harlowe Print : Book1700-1799 at home all day [...] at Oaks I met with Mr Laws practical discourse on christian perfection [...] I am now reading it James Clegg William Law A Practical Traetise Upon Christain Perfection Print : Book1700-1799 Afternoon read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. of Prayers not being granted immediately. Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 Read one sermon and part of another of Dr Stanhope's of Death and Judgement, and of the sufficiency of the scriptures. I think he is a better orator than casuist: his arg... Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 After dinner, garden 1 1/2 hours feeding the foul. Drank coffee. Made an end of the sermon. Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 Read 2 sermons of Dr Stanhope's, one to sea men, the other on the 5th November. Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 I find by the newspapers this morning that Dr Wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation at Beaconsfield to wait upon my lord Nottingham Edward Lincoln unknown Print : Newspaper1700-1799 I find by the news papers this morning that dr wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation at Beaconsfield to wait upon my lord Nottingham [to... Edward Lincoln Daniel (Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham) Finch The Answer of the Earl of Nottingham to Mr Whiston Print : Book1700-1799 Did not go to church. Read a funeral sermon of Dr Stanhope's. Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope. Cost 5s. Mother paid half of that... Read Philip o... Gertrude Savile David Lewis Philip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at th Print : Book1700-1799 After dinner, summerhouse, read the Life of Count Venivill - silly. Gertrude Savile Penelope Aubin The Strange Adventure of the Count de Vinevil and Print : Book1700-1799 No rest for me in bed, therefore rise 1/2 past 4... summerhouse till 1/2 past 7 read Baker's Chronicles Gertrude Savile Richard Baker A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time Print : Book1700-1799 I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists Print : Book1700-1799 Sup'd by myself in own chamber. Read 'Tale of a Tub'. Bed 11... Gertrude Savile Jonathan Swift A Tale of A Tub Print : Book1700-1799 I left the old woman with mother as soon as supper was done. Read Baker's Chronicles 1 1/2 hours. Bed at 11. Gertrude Savile Richard Baker A Chronicle of the Kings of England Print : Book1700-1799 Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists Print : Book1700-1799 Sup'd alone. Read 'The Perplex'd Duches' a novell. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler Haywood The Perplex'd Dutchess: Or, Treachery Rewarded... Print : Book1700-1799 Lay till 11. All day alone... Lay on the bed as much as I coud. Read 2 books of the Life of the Baron Debross, an old story. Gertrude Savile Eliza Haywood Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse, who was broke on t Print : Book1700-1799 Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Like a black desart at th' approach of night I'll lay ... Gertrude Savile John Dryden All for Love Print : Book1700-1799 "Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love') Gertrude Savile John Dryden All for Love Print : Book1700-1799 'tis in clearing one's charicter, as in taking spotts outof one's cloaths. You make it ten times bigger and seldom or never efface the first stains'. (Chit-Chat) Gertrude Savile Thomas Killigrew Chit-Chat. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Print : Book1700-1799 I sat in the Parlor; drank coffee and read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's... Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 Read after supper the contempt of the clergy. Gertrude Savile John Eachard The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl Print : Book1700-1799 Summerhouse reading 'contempt of the clergy' till 1/2 past 5. Gertrude Savile John Eachard The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl Print : Book1700-1799 Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12. Gertrude Savile Charles Sedley The Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two Volumes Print : Book1700-1799 'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'. ('Constantine') Gertrude Savile Nathaniel Lee Constantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works... Print : Book1700-1799 Very miserable. 'Like a poor Lunitick that Makes his Moan And for a time beguiles the Lookers-On He reasons well, his Eyes their Wildness lose And vows the keepers his w... Gertrude Savile Nathaniel Lee Caesar Borgia. A Tragedy Print : Book1700-1799 Home past 8 a fier in the Parlor. Read Mrs Behn's novels, a book of Abraham's [cut by editor]. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Eachard; a book with much truth and much witt, but too l... Gertrude Savile John Eachard The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl Print : Book1700-1799 Made an end of the Novell [the Fair Jilt]. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'. Gertrude Savile John Eachard The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl Print : Book1700-1799 Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk. Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk. Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay ['Cyrus'] OR Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'Tale of Tub' 1 hour. Bed past 10. Gertrude Savile Jonathan Swift A Tale of A Tub Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12. Gertrude Savile William Shakespeare Double Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writt Print : Book1700-1799 Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage. Gertrude Savile Charles Beckingham The Life of Mr Richard Savage Print : Book1700-1799 Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's. Gertrude Savile (Sir) John Denham The Sophy OR Poems and Translations Print : Book1700-1799 None went to Church. Read a book of Luther's. Gertrude Savile Martin Luther Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one. Gertrude Savile John Sturmy Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy. Print : Book1700-1799 Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God Print : Book1700-1799 Din'd and sup'd with Aunt. Play'd Pickett till past 9. Read some Tatlers. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper. Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Din'd in own room alone... Read 'A Journy to London', Sir J Vanburg's -part of what is made 'The Provoked Husband' by Cibber, vastly mended by him I think. Gertrude Savile (Sir) John Vanbrugh A Journey to London, being part of a comedy... Print : Book1700-1799 Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner. Gertrude Savile John Gay The Beggar's Opera Print : Book1700-1799 Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12. Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Rise at 10. Mary read 'Cyrus'. Knited [knitted] till 7. Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Took Phisick. Rise at 10. Mary read Cyrus. Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Took phisick. Mary read Cyrus. Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone. Gertrude Savile John Gay The Beggars Opera Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'A True Estemate of Human Life' by Mr Young, a Sermon preach'd in St George's Church upon the King's death. Extreordinary stile. Poeticall, exceeding entertaining. Gertrude Savile Edward Young A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o Print : Book1700-1799 Aunt had the coach at 5 to visit. I drank tea and read Mr Young's sermon. Mrs D'Enly went when the coach came back with Aunt near 10. Gertrude Savile Edward Young A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o Print : Book1700-1799 Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel... Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God Print : Book1700-1799 Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God Print : Book1700-1799 Supper alone. Tatlers. Bed past 11. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Supper alone. 4 Tatlers. Bed 1/2 past 11. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Home 9. Supper below. 3 Tatlers. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Home past 9. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed past 11. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Home near 10. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed 12. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Conscious Lovers'. Gertrude Savile (Sir) Richard Steele The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. Print : Book1700-1799 Read the 'Universal Passion' Gertrude Savile Edward Young The Universal Passion Print : Book1700-1799 Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. He is grown a favouritt Author of mine. I am not cont... Gertrude Savile Edward Young The Universal Passion Print : Book1700-1799 Supper below. Read 'The Life, Roberies, etc. of Dalton', an evidence against several of the Robers which are to be Hang'd. Bed past 11. Gertrude Savile The Life and Actions of James Dalton (the noted st Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'The British Recluse'. Gertrude Savile Eliza Haywood The British Recluse; Or the Secret History of Cleo Print : Book1700-1799 Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc. Gertrude Savile 'B.L' OR 'A Lady' Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had m Print : Book1700-1799 Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke Clarke A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Madame de Gomez La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Madame de Gomez La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days Print : Book
