√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Urethra" I see most appropriately consequent - a poem w... George Gordon, Lord Byron anon advertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Vers... Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in very fair couplets ... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron anon Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.' George Gordon, Lord Byron Various Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your poems there ... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron Thomas Moore [poems] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien Buonaparte will beat us all. I have seen much of h... George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucien Buonaparte Charlemagne Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des Ottomans," the best compendium of the kind I ever met... George Gordon, Lord Byron A. L. Castellan Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webster): 'There is a delightful epitaph on Voltaire in Gr... George Gordon, Lord Byron Grimm unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure from ye. perusal of parts of the book - to the whole ... George Gordon, Lord Byron J. Thomson unknown Unknown 1800-1849 September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly kept by my father was a bill, 'a first, second and ... Francis Place Print : Advertisement, Handbill, Poster1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron British Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite electrified me.' George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucien Buonaparte Charlemagne Unknown 1800-1849 In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which however I could not sleep ... ) & so Good Morning - ... George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday - the second seem... George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown [epigram on J. W. Ward] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown [epigram on J. W. Ward] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publication without my perusal of many of its pages ... I sho... George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein De L'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perusal of an article in the "Christian Observer" on ye. ... George Gordon, Lord Byron Various Christian Observer Print : Serial / periodicalByron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making some remarks on ye. blank pages - there are many beaut... George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Persian Tale Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputation of being wicked, with whom we should be too happy... George Gordon, Lord Byron Friedrich Melchoir Grimm Correspondance Litteraire Print : Book1800-1849 On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstances respecting some families in the Strand and its n... Francis Place Francis Place Autobiography Manuscript : unpublished memoirs1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodgson, as he pays me in kind. It is a horrible thing ... George Gordon, Lord Byron George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Unknown 1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have read her books - like most of them, and delight in t... George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein unknown Print : Book1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.' George Gordon, Lord Byron Robert Burns unknown Unknown 1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my life is monotonous, and yet desultory. I take up boo... George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown [books] Print : Book1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813, on his and Lady Oxford's shared enthusiasm for Lucretius: '[Lady Oxford] is an adept in the text of... Lady Oxford Lucretius unknown Print : Book1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813, on his and Lady Oxford's shared enthusiasm for Lucretius: '[Lady Oxford] is an adept in the text of... Lady Oxford Busby [translation of Lucretius] Print : Book1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh Review [containing negative review of his work] on me... George Gordon, Lord Byron Various Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the day was closed, which never happened till half past... Francis Place Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in motion an early ferment: "New ideas from the perusal o... John Clare Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a v... John Cole Print : Book1800-1849 Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a v... John Cole Print : Book1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole Salomon Gessner The Death of Abel Print : Book1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole Alexander Pope Homer Print : Book1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole Cicero Letters Print : Book1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia Print : Book1800-1849 During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g... John Cole Aaron Hill Zara Print : Book1800-1849 During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g... John Cole John Home Douglas: A Tragedy Print : Book1800-1849 During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g... John Cole Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Duenna Print : Book1800-1849 During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g... John Cole Print : Book1800-1849 During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g... John Cole Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points for the reader (Magdalene Erskine). Vol. 2 has a n... Magdalene Erskine Anne Grant Letters from the Mountains; being the real corresp... Print : Book1800-1849 Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into such a crown of glory, - of holy radiance, as the moral... Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer Lytton Zanoni Print : Book1800-1849 'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the objects of this.' Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer Lytton Zanoni Print : Book1800-1849 'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-makers, - that we cannot make a story, - Boz, Bulwer... Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer Lytton Zanoni Print : Book1800-1849 'I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c. I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'. Castor & Pollux really took away my breath. How ... Harriet Martineau Thomas Babington Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome Print : Book1800-1849 'I suppose you shared the benefit, so common, thank God! in our generation, - of an early, & thorough familiarity with Mrs Barbauld's Prose Hymns. I know no book influen... Harriet Martineau Anna Laetitia Barbauld Hymns in Prose for Children Print : Book1800-1849 ["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.' Mary Russell Mitford Caroline Clive The Great Drought Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to say, wrote themselves - & I rejoice at it since by n... Mary Russell Mitford Caroline Clive The Queen's Ball: A Poem Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Henri Balzac La Recherche de L'Absolu Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Henri Balzac Eugenie Grandet Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Henri Balzac Modeste Mignon Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Dr Kitto holy verses Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Duffy Irish Songs and Ballads Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Mirabeau Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Lucas Montigny Memoires de Mirabeau sa famille et ses ecrits Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England, from the Accession of Jame... Print : Book1800-1849 'the book that featured most prominently in [Joseph Greenwood's] memoirs was a cheap edition of Robinson Crusoe. "To me Daniel Defoe's book was a wonderful thing, it open... Joseph Greenwood Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Plutarch [history] Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Charles Rollin Ancient History Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Ancient Universal History Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie Chronicles of Scotland Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Joseph Addison The Spectator Print : Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Samuel Johnson The Rambler Print : Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Robert Burns [poetry] Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Allan Ramsay [poetry] Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Robert Fergusson [poems] Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Pope happened to be the first English poet that [Robert] Story discovered, so he provided the template from which the herd-boy minted pastorals "delightfully free from e... Robert Story Alexander Pope Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'When he was finally exposed to Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, [Robert Story] reeled from the shock of the new. Pope may have been too refined, but this, Story insiste... Robert Story Walter Scott Lay of the Last Minstrel Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop... Robert White Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop... Robert White John Keats Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop... Robert White George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop... Robert White Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake Print : Book1800-1849 '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the ... Hugh Miller Joseph Addison Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the ... Hugh Miller Alexander Pope Print : Book1800-1849 '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the ... Hugh Miller [probably William] Robertson Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going together, in the same carriage, to dine with Earl Gre... George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a Javanese newspaper Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding John Cam Hobhouse's offence at his MS Memoirs: "Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to hi... friends of Byron John Cam Hobhouse Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 December 1821: "I have received yr. letter ... the E... George Gordon, Lord Byron John Sheppard [unknown] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is the first English Newspaper (except Galignani's Paris... George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a [English newspaper] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times." George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a The Times Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ... Caroline Clive George Sand La Mare au Diable Print : Book1800-1849 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ... Caroline Clive Jules Sandeau La Chasse au Roman Print : Book1800-1849 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ... Caroline Clive Lord Mahon The Life of Louis, Prince of Conde, Surnamed the G... Print : Book1800-1849 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ... Caroline Clive Memoirs of a Missionary Print : Book1800-1849 'If you happen to have heard Mr. Sullivan's conversation with me about "From Oxford to Rome' it may interest you to know that the authoress is a Miss Harris, daughter of ... Mary Russell Mitford Elizabeth Harris From Oxford to Rome Print : Book1800-1849 'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.' Caroline Clive Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lady Geraldine Print : Book1800-1849 [Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.' Caroline Clive Robert Browning Bells and Pomegranates Print : BookDorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 4 June 1802, "... a tranquil night ... I read Mother Hubbard's Tale before I went to bed." Dorothy Wordsworth Mother Hubbard's Tale Unknown 1800-1849 'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this work so attentively for the style's sake. Besides t... Anne Lister Jean Jaques Rousseau Confessions Print : Book1800-1849 ' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.' Anne Lister Jean Jaques Rousseau Confessions Print : Book1800-1849 ' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped into some of my books. Vol.I Nouvelle Heloise.' Anne Lister Jean Jaques Rousseau Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise Print : Book1800-1849 ' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.' Anne Lister Jean Jaques Rousseau Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise Print : Book1800-1849 'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one end of tablecloth and we were very cosy and comfort... Anne Lister Thomas Campbell The Pleasures of Hope Print : Book1800-1849 ' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have laughed so much or so heartily. We both laughed. Came ... Anne Lister Theodore Hook Sayings and Doings Print : Book1800-1849 ' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.' Anne Lister Henry Moore Buxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions i Print : Book1800-1849 ' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79pp and several pages at the end of Amelie Mansfield.... Anne Lister Mme Marie-Sophie Cottin Amelie Mansfield Print : Book1800-1849 ' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a pamphlet by M.Chateaubriand. ' Le Roi Est Mort, Vive ... Anne Lister Chateaubriand Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 [ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I read in 1/2 hour while walking in the Gardens' [she goe... Anne Lister Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal Politique Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele Anne Lister Richard Polwhele Sermons: a new volume Print : Book1800-1849 Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as I had done reading Latin. By the timeI began with Lu... Anne Lister Lucian Print : Book1800-1849 before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3. Anne Lister [Greek Grammar] Print : Book1800-1849 [Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetry from p.48 to 63 but [it] is too voluptuous, too An... Anne Lister Thomas Moore The Loves of the Angels Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I think it one of the best periodicals of the day. T... Anne Lister Retrospective Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 [Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting the system of pulleys she has not gone quite far enou... Anne Lister Jane Marcet Conversations on Natural Philosophy Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How passing sweet were solitude with such an one! "Well... Anne Lister William Cowper Retirement Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cottin "La musique, comme un seductor adroit, va touche... Anne Lister Sophie Cottin Amelie Mansfield Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read novels, do send for Eugene Aram. Miss Hobart and I h... Anne Lister Edward Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham' Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter dated Monday 15 January 1838] Have you seen that book of Bernard's on the Constitution? Not fit for every eye. On electing monarchy and state religion he seems a ... Anne Lister J. B. Bernard Theory of the Constitution Compared with its Pract Print : Book1800-1849 What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words would often have been mine, if heaven had endowed me ... Anne Lister Edward Young The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edition at home (got another directly), the very lines y... Anne Lister Edward Young The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woman should never shew the full extent of her regard, e... Anne Lister John Gregory A Father's Legacy to His Daughters Print : Book1800-1849 The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the Greeks in general were. Anne Lister Oliver Goldsmith The Grecian History Print : Book1800-1849 My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with the Georgical Essays, I have read a little of the f... Anne Lister Alexander Hunter Georgical Essays Print : Book1800-1849 I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield Anne Lister Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Print : Book1800-1849 Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra... Anne Lister John Bonnycastle An introduction to algebra or a treatise on algebr 1800-1849 Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra' Anne Lister Sophlocles Electra Print : Book1800-1849 Assisted my Aunt in reading prayers in the afternoon. In the evening read aloud sermons 8+9, Hoole. Anne Lister Joseph Hoole sermons on several important practical subjects Print : Book1800-1849 After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...]. Anne Lister ['Medical Mss'] Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot. Anne Lister The Bay of Biscay Unknown 1800-1849 Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot. Anne Lister Said Eve unto Adam Unknown 1800-1849 In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 January Anne Lister Edward Gibbon Miscellaneous Works Print : Book1800-1849 In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gender, (as Gibbons wrote toDeyverdum, vol. 604/703... Anne Lister Edward Gibbon Miscellaneous Works Print : Book1800-1849 This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheets of 4 columns each,one of the most inflamatory radi... Anne Lister Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and po... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to the library today...He is an arrant republican in poli... Anne Lister Colonel Francis Hall Travels in France in 1818 Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last. Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...] Anne Lister Annals of philosophy Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a baronet) last novel The Monastery, in 3 vols, 12 mo ... Anne Lister Sir Walter Scott The Monastery. A romance Unknown 1800-1849 from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read it with a sort of melancholy feeling, the very germ ... Anne Lister August Fredrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue Leontine de Blondheim Print : Book1800-1849 'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition. Anne Lister Anthony Todd Thomson A Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [e Print : Book1800-1849 Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's. Anne Lister Archibald Alison Sermons Print : Book1800-1849 Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerably improved but I am disatisfied with myself for not... Anne Lister Desmosthenes All the Orations of Demosthenes Print : Book1800-1849 Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday and whi... Anne Lister William Emerson The principle of mechanics Unknown 1800-1849 Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore...The extracts from this poetic romance are very beau... Anne Lister Thomas Moore Lallah Rookh or 'Review' Unknown 1800-1849 'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lectures on physiology Dr Scudamore lent me 10 days ago.... Anne Lister Dr Scudamore Lectures on physiology Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel considerably improved. Anne Lister Thomas Leland All the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into En Unknown 1800-1849 had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday. Anne Lister William Emerson Mechanics or The Principles of Mechanics Print : Book1800-1849 before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid Anne Lister Euclid The Elements Print : Book1800-1849 between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to proceed diligentlyin the hope that [...], may somet... Anne Lister Euclid The Elements Print : Book1800-1849 All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and...my aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele. Anne Lister Bible Print : Book1800-1849 I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinted since 1806, or 1808, but the reasoning not out of ... Anne Lister William Spence Tracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain Indepe Print : Book1800-1849 Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 to 1527, end of Philoctetes of Sophlocles, & afterwar... Anne Lister Sophocles Philoctetes 1800-1849 Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a little while then went back to Northgate [...] Isabella... Anne Lister The Leeds Mercury Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave me. Anne Lister '2 or 3 old papers' Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the evening service. Anne Lister James Boswell The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel ... Print : Book1800-1849 down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Saltmarshes had done dinner. Read a few pp. of a transl... Anne Lister Cicero On/the book of old age Print : Book1800-1849 From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of the life + writings of the celestial German philoso... Anne Lister Monthly Magazine Print : Book1800-1849 In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writing a work on antiquities. Anne Lister Joseph Spence Polymetics Abridged Print : Book1800-1849 [9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading French + it being the only book I get. Anne Lister 'Paris guide' Print : Book1800-1849 The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs Norcliffe. 'Old Maids'. A sprightly writer expresses ... Anne Lister 'Old Maids' Print : Newspaper1800-1849 In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de Stael rather too tender to Napoleon. One day to get... Anne Lister European Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my spirits oil without which, its own friction against it... Anne Lister David Henry Urquhart Commentaries on classical learning Print : Book1800-1849 "The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme [...] Rousseau's confessions, volume and page, first... Anne Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Confessions Print : Book1800-1849 Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till 3 when we dined. Anne Lister Anne Lister Journal Manuscript : Sheet, mss memoirs1800-1849 In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. the girls introduced me. She thanked me for the book... Anne Lister Caroline Lamb Glenarvon Print : Book1800-1849 Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby. Anne Lister John Stewart Collections and recollections Print : Book1800-1849 At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more particularly pleased. There are several hints for journal ... Anne Lister The art of employing time to the greatest advantag... Print : Book1800-1849 Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Institute of English Grammar, trying to give M - some inst... Anne Lister John Ash Grammatical Institutes Print : BookCame upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen t it to me Saturday 15 November) some passages in t... Anne Lister By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair Print : Book1800-1849 From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10. Anne Lister Edward Young The complaint, or night thoughts Print : Book1800-1849 Walked forward to Lightcliffe. Mrs W. Priestley + Miss Hodgson at dinner... would call again in 1/2 hour. Did so, after loitering that time, reading the gravestones in th... Anne Lister Print : text printed on gravestonesUnknown1800-1849 At 3 1/4 down the old bank to the library. Miss Maria Browne there. Came up to me to say her sister had so bad a cold [...] she could not possibly stir out today [...] I ... Miss Browne George Gordon Byron Childe Harold Print : Book1800-1849 Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron [...] Who admiredhim as a man? yet 'he is gone forev... Anne Lister The Globe and Traveller Print : Newspaper1800-1849 From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account of my intrigue with Anne Belcombe I read over atten... Anne Lister Anne Lister Journal Manuscript : Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal1800-1849 'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics at the end of the book in readiness to take it back.... Anne Lister George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold Print : Book1800-1849 Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition Anne Lister Anthony Todd Thomson A conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London Print : Book1800-1849 Twice I procured a French grammar, and in private essayed that tongue; but my attempts were discovered and laughed at, and I was decidedly told I could never learn withou... Anne Lutton [French Grammar] Print : Book1800-1849 As I grew up, I still read with avidity all I could lay my hands on, and was not at all fastidious. Unfortunately I got novels, plays etc and read them privately... My ... Anne Lutton ['novels'] Print : Book1800-1849 Never did any poor creature labour with morediligence than I did to obtain the most accurate knowledge of the language. I succeeded, read all the Roman classics, and fast... Anne Lutton ['Roman Classics'] Print : Book1800-1849 My circumstances were perhaps well fitted to the task of self-culture - too straitened to admit of much expenditure on books, but sufficiently easy to afford me plenty of... Anne Lutton Virgil Print : Book1800-1849 I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. Anne Lutton ['Greek Grammar'] Print : Book1800-1849 I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin... Anne Lutton New Testament Print : Book1800-1849 I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin... Anne Lutton Homer The Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin... Anne Lutton Homer The Odyssey Print : Book1800-1849 My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were... Anne Lutton [old-school novels] Print : BookMy father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton John Adams The History of Rome, from the Foundation of the Ci Print : Book1800-1849 My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton William Robertson The History of America Print : Book1800-1849 My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton J.J. Barthelemy Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, Print : Book1800-1849 My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton Oliver Goldsmith The History of England from the Earliest Times... Print : Book1800-1849 My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton John Wesley Sermons on Several Occasions OR Three Sermons Print : Book1800-1849 My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton The Gentleman's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 It was Lilly's Latin Grammar. It called for uncommon perseverance to come at its contents, so much had it suffered from the use and abuse of schools... But I was desperat... Anne Lutton William Lilly Lilly's Latin Grammar Print : Book1800-1849 Finding an old copy of Barrow's Euclid in my father's bookcase, I resolved to come at some knowledge of mathematics and by my usual persevering application for the Divine... Anne Lutton Isaac Barrow Euclid's Elements. The Whole Fifteen Books Compend Print : Book1800-1849 I read Mrs Rogers' Life and Letters with great profit. ... The life and letters of Mrs Rogers here made a great blessing to me, also conversation with a person who enjoy... Anne Lutton Hester Ann Rogers Spiritual Letters Or A Short Account of the Experi Print : Book1800-1849 My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts! Anne Lutton 'Scriptures' Print : BookMy brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts! 'Scriptures' Print : Book1800-1849 To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the resolutions over carefully, then most reverently uncover... A Young Ploughman [series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up b Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 'At about age fifteen [Joseph Barker] found an old folio on anatomy and surgery by Helkiah Crooke (physician to James I) and was delighted by "certain parts of the work w... Joseph Barker Helkiah Crooke [medical folio] Print : Book1850-1899 'The other day for a treat Charlie got me La Petite Comtesse to read. I never was more delighted with any story. It is so beautifully and pathetically written, but so s... Katey Dickens Feuillet Octave La Petite Comtesse Print : Book1850-1899 'That time Lord Tennyson was delightful - kind and friendly and full of stories, talking a great deal, and in the best of humours. He read the Funeral Ode to us afterwar... Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord Tennyson Funeral Ode Print : Book1850-1899 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less... Margaret Oliphant Samuel Richardson Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady Print : Book1850-1899 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less... Margaret Oliphant Henry Fielding Tom Jones Print : Book1850-1899 'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel... Margaret Oliphant Edward Jenkins Ginx's Baby Print : Book1850-1899 'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel... Margaret Oliphant unknown Peasant Life Print : Book1850-1899 'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should have little to complain of. It is wonderfully fine... Margaret Oliphant George Chesney Battle of Dorking Print : Book1850-1899 'Montalembert, it appears, kept a journal from his twelfth year to the end of his life, and I am tantalised with the sight of these volumes, which Madame de M. reads to m... Madame de Montalembert Montalembert journals of Montalembert Manuscript : Codex1850-1899 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar" I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Joh... Margaret Oliphant Collins unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar' I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Joh... Margaret Oliphant Anthony Trollope Caesar Print : Book1850-1899 'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I was shocked and delighted by "Eothen." I remember bei... Margaret Oliphant Alexander William Kinglake Eothen Print : Book1850-1899 'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...' Margaret Oliphant Major Lockhart [verses] Unknown 1850-1899 'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not Anglo-Indian) life, which gives a very fine picture ... Margaret Oliphant Alexander Allardyce City of Sunshine Print : Book1850-1899 'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy ... A.W. Kinglake Margaret Oliphant Mrs Arthur Print : Book1850-1899 'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy ... A.W. Kinglake Margaret Oliphant Carita Print : Book1850-1899 'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.' Margaret Oliphant Alphonse Daudet [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in the article on Magazines, but the coming here complica... Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.' Margaret Oliphant Times, The Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.' Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Heinrich Heine De l'Allemagne Print : Book1850-1899 'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors: "He [Sir Stafford Northcote] is a statesman, the b... Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'The political awakening of J.R. Clynes came when three old blind men paid him 3d a week to read the newspapers to them: "Reading aloud was a new joy to me. Some of the ... J.R. Clynes [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'If Clynes needed a second lesson in the subversive power of print, it came when his foreman nearly sacked him for sneaking a look at "Paradise Lost" during a work break ... J.R. Clynes John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1850-1899 there is a leading article in the "Times" about New Zealand Albert Battiscombe The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 I am reading "Maunders Treasury of Geography" a very entertaining work. Albert Battiscombe Samuel Maunder The Treasury of Geography Print : Book1850-1899 "I have been reading lately "Natural Philosophy" by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the "Chemistry of Creation" by Dr Ellis." Albert Battiscombe Charles Tomlinson Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 'Wedding-bells were the usual end to our stories, of which "The Heir of Redclyffe" was a fair sample. Needless to say I had no notion of any difficulties after the bells ... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Heir of Redclyffe Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 "I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis." Albert Battiscombe John Herschel A preliminary discourse on the study of Natural Ph Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1850-1899 "I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis." Albert Battiscombe Robert Ellis The Chemistry of Creation: being an outline of the Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charles and Mary Lamb Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes George Eliot Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Alfred Tennyson Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron Print : Book1850-1899 I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["] Albert Battiscombe Samuel Maunder The Treasury of Geography Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Benjamin Disraeli Print : Book1850-1899 I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["] Albert Battiscombe Benjamin Thompson Philosophical Papers: being a collection of memoir Print : Book1850-1899 Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt) Albert Battiscombe Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Print : Book1850-1899 Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt) Albert Battiscombe Leigh Hunt The Court Servant Print : Book1850-1899 Have just finished "Rory O'More" by Samuel Lover Albert Battiscombe Samuel Lover Rory O'More Print : Book1850-1899 Read "Nathalie" by Julia Kavanagh Albert Battiscombe Julia Kavanagh Nathalie Print : Book1850-1899 'My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson. My mother, all agitated in defence of her idol, fetched his poems from the shelf, and with a "Li... Mary Thomas Alfred Tennyson Locksley Hall Print : Book1850-1899 'Charles was reading Hans Andersen: I wanted the book, asked for it, fussed for it, and finally broke into tears.' Charles Thomas Hans Christian Anderson Print : Book1850-1899 'mother would summon me to her side and open an enormous Bible. It was invariably at the Old Testament, and I had to read aloud the strange doings of the Patriarchs. No c... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Bible (Old Testament), the Print : Book1850-1899 'My English history was derived from a small book in small print that dealt with the characters of the kings at some length.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print : Book1850-1899 'Not as a lesson, but for sheer pleasure, did I browse in "A Child's History of Rome", a book full of good stories.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes A Child's History of Rome Print : Book1850-1899 'For scientific notions I had Dr. Brewer's "Guide to Science", in the form of a catechism.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Dr Brewer Guide to Science Print : Book1850-1899 'Of course I had a shelf for my books..."Rosy's Voyage Around the World" was prime favourite.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Rosy's Voyage Around the World Print : Book1850-1899 'My own treasures are nearly all with me still, showing only the honourable marks of age and continual reading...' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Little Gypsy Print : Book1850-1899 '"Alice in Wonderland" we all knew practically by heart.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland Print : Book1850-1899 'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I...buried myself in it all afternoon, my pleasure enhan... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass Print : Book1850-1899 Monday 7th Buried poor Broome at 10 AM with all honours the General & staff attending the 40th [regiment] lending their Band - the Commodore was obliged to read the Buria... Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour Church of England burial service Print : Book1850-1899 'It was entirely due to its colour that another book became my constant companion. This was an illustrated Scripture text-book, given to me on my seventh birthday, and st... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print : Book1850-1899 'Some of the boys' prizes fell into my keeping, handed to me in disgust. One of these, "The Safe Compass", afforded me many a joyful hour. It took the gloomiest views as ... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Safe Compass Print : Book1850-1899 'Many people of my age must have imbibed their early religious notions from the same book that I did.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Peep of the Day Print : Book1850-1899 'There is a pencil note in his copy of "Paradise Lost": "Had to write 500 lines of this for being caught reading "King Lear" in class."' Tom Thomas William Shakespeare King Lear Print : Book1850-1899 'Some three or four times during the reading of the French play...Charles ... neatly, but with becoming hesitation, spouted the Latin line.' Charles Thomas [French play] Print : Book1850-1899 'I was placed in the lowest class with three other little girls of my own age, who were reading aloud the story of Richard Arkwright.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print : Book1850-1899 'My new history book was "Little Arthur", which one could read like a delightful story.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Little Arthur Print : Book1850-1899 'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Shakespeare The Tempest Print : Book1850-1899 'My dear Mrs Oliphant, - I cannot help venturing to express the admiration with which I have been reading the "Lover and his Lass." It is by your powerful, truth-seeing ... Alexander Kinglake Margaret Oliphant The Lover and his Lass Print : Book1850-1899 [Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his first successful book, "David Elginbrod", had been publi... Margaret Oliphant George MacDonald David Elginbrod Manuscript : MS of a book1850-1899 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ev... Margaret Oliphant John Morley Life of George Eliot Print : Book1850-1899 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ev... Margaret Oliphant Review of the Life of George Eliot Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I am making the most prodigious effort to understand ... Margaret Oliphant Laurence Oliphant Land of Gilead, The Print : Book1850-1899 'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'. Margaret Oliphant Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly now.' Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article on Hayward is very good. Sir Edward Hamley, I think?... Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and who sent back to him at once a letter of four pages sa... William Ewart Gladstone Margaret Oliphant Makers of Venice Print : Book1850-1899 'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and sympathise in your afternoon musings - the subdued t... Margaret Oliphant A.K.H. Boyd Taking in Sail Print : Unknown1850-1899 'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I think exceedingly clever. Indeed there seems to me ge... Margaret Oliphant J.M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls Print : Book1850-1899 Dear Mrs Oliphant, - It is with ceaseless admiration that I have read 'The Duke's Daughter'. My remembrance of what you had told me respecting the origin of your inclina... A.W. Kinglake Margaret Oliphant The Duke's Daughter Print : Book, Unknown1850-1899 Some little time since, I had the good fortune to find that there was at least one [one in italics] of your delightful books which I had missed - I mean 'In Trust' - and ... A.W. Kinglake Margaret Oliphant In Trust Print : Book, Unknown1850-1899 I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun of Macdonald, who is often a noble writer, but not, ... Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical, Unknown1850-1899 I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture characters will impress upon many minds an important portion ... William Ewart Gladstone Margaret Oliphant Jerusalem: Its History and Hope Print : Book, Unknown1850-1899 I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chalmers's great experiment in Glasgow, which I think a ... Margaret Oliphant [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria] Print : Newspaper, Unknown1850-1899 I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a little work in the mornings. Margaret Oliphant A.P. Stanley A Selection from the writings of Dean Stanley Print : Book1850-1899 I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have taken during the last year. It has been more full ... Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath - with much virtuous indignation about 'Maga's' perso... Margaret Oliphant Andrew Lang Life of Lockhart Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : MS chapters of a book1850-1899 I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one might say the same of Miss Marie Corelli, who, by the... Margaret Oliphant Marie Corelli Print : Book1850-1899 One afternoon, very near the end, she begged to have "Crossing the Bar" read; and while the reader, painfully keeping her voice steady, repeated the last lines, the liste... Annie Coghill Crossing the Bar Print : Book1850-1899 [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Thomas Hughes Tom Brown Print : Book1850-1899 [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Hans Christian Andersen Tales Print : Book1850-1899 [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress, The Print : Book1850-1899 [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Good Words for the Young Print : Serial / periodical, Bound volumes1850-1899 'Again and again I turned to something entitled "The Dark Journey", only to find it was an account of one's digestion. You may wonder why I did this more than once, but I... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Dark Journey Print : Serial / periodical, Bound volumes of a periodical1850-1899 'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but his school-fellows did, and all their gay activitie... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Henry Milner Print : Book1850-1899 'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"...he...seized the Bible, and soon became absorbed in t... Barnholt Thomas Bible, The (Book of Esther) Print : Book1850-1899 'The question of conscience once arose when mother was reading "Jessica's First Prayer" aloud to Barnholt and me.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Jessica's First Prayer Print : Unknown1850-1899 'How horrified my father was on discovering that the servants had been reading little bits to me out of "Lloyd's Weekly" [on a Sunday].' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lloyd's Weekly Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.' Molly Vivian William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.' Molly Vivian Richard Harris Barham The Ingoldsby Legends Print : Book1850-1899 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.' Molly Vivian The Misadventures at Margate Print : Unknown1850-1899 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Print : Book1850-1899 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Print : Book, Unknown1850-1899 'Charles...seized the list [of prayers for the redemption of sinners] hopefully, and hooted with delight when he found: "For a family of four boys and one girl [namely hi... Charles Thomas Aunt Lizzie Persons for Whom our Prayers are Requested Print : Serial / periodical, Religious magazine with blank pages for individual prayers1850-1899 'I concluded that no one could really be as good as this book wanted and that it was a fearful waste of time.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Narrow Way Print : Book1850-1899 'Among the treasures we rooted out...were an illustrated Prayer Book, gone quite brown with age and damp. When tired of reading we could get laughter out of its absurd pi... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print : Book1850-1899 'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes John Foxe Book of Martyrs Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Surely no book was ever read and re-read and talked over as that first new volume, although we went on to buy many more.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Robert Michael Ballantyne The Iron Horse Print : Book1850-1899 'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flow... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Cassell's Magazine provided stronger meat...and I think every word of it found some reader in the family.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Cassell's Family Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Jules Verne Journey to the Centre of the Earth Print : Book1850-1899 1"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason for knocking down Lord Steyne.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Print : Book1850-1899 'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1850-1899 'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understood no single sentence.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Gladstone Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f... Thomas Jones Farell Lee Bevan Peep of Day Print : Book1850-1899 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f... Thomas Jones James Bruce Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the... Print : Book1850-1899 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f... Thomas Jones Samuel Baker [Probably] 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the... Print : Book1850-1899 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f... Thomas Jones Frank Buckland Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Thomas Babington MacAulay Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Oliver Goldsmith History of England Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Josephus Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Plutarch Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Samuel Pepys Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... father of Thomas Jones The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... father of Thomas Jones Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive... John Johnson Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations Print : Book1850-1899 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to... John Johnson John Stuart Mill Principles of Political Economy Print : Book1850-1899 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to... John Johnson Alfred Marshall Principles of Economics Print : Unknown1850-1899 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to... John Johnson [history and philosophy] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor... Richard Pyke William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor... Richard Pyke James Boswell Print : Book1850-1899 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor... Richard Pyke Percy Bysshe Shelley [poems] Print : Book1850-1899 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor... Richard Pyke George Henry Lewes History of Philosophy Print : Book1850-1899 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor... Richard Pyke Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Print : Book1850-1899 '[Robert Blatchford] found Sartor Resartus intimidating: "after reading the famous meditaton on the sleeping city, I threw the book across the room. I felt I should never... Robert Blatchford Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Print : Book1850-1899 'As a seaman in the mid-1870s, Ben Tillett had not yet been exposed to revolutionary literature, "But I discovered Thomas Carlyle and was held spellbound by the dark fury... Ben Tillett Thomas Carlyle Print : Unknown1850-1899 'As a young South Wales miner, Edmund Stonelake, who had never heard of the French Revolution, asked a bookseller for something on the subject and was sold Carlyle. At fi... Edmund Stonelake Thomas Carlyle Print : Book, Unknown1850-1899 'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or seventeen. He had to read it through three times be... James Keir Hardie Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson George Eliot Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson Charlotte Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o... Elizabeth Bryson Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Print : Book1850-1899 At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o... Elizabeth Bryson Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero-worship Print : Book1850-1899 At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o... Elizabeth Bryson Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution Print : Book1850-1899 'Labour Party pioneer F.W. Jowett..., reading Heroes and Hero-Worship as a young millworker, was attracted by its vision of a new society but repelled by its authoritaria... F.W. Jowett Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Lik... Jack Lawson Charles Reade Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson... would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Lik... Jack Lawson Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t... Edward Fitzgerald Virgil Print : Book1850-1899 I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t... Edward Fitzgerald Juvenal Print : Book1850-1899 I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t... Edward Fitzgerald John Wesley Journal Print : Book1800-1849 1850-1899 I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t... Edward Fitzgerald Horace Walpole Letters Print : Book1850-1899 'Some one by chance read out to me the other day at the seaside your account of poor old Naseby Village from Cromwell, quoted in Knight?s "Half Hours, etc." It is now tw... Edward Charles Knight Half Hours with the Best Authors Print : Book1850-1899 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three volumes; and I used to tell stories out of that some... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Jack Sheppard Print : Book1850-1899 Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Jack Sheppard Print : Book1850-1899 Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood Print : Book1850-1899 Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar... anon Newgate Calendar Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 '[Muir] recalls... that his father conducted a little service in the farmhouse each week: "Every Sunday night he gathered us together to read a chapter of the Bible and k... The Bible Print : Book1900-1945 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett Walter Scott Ivanhoe Print : Book1850-1899 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett John Ruskin Unto this Last Print : Book1850-1899 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett Thomas Carlyle Past and Present Print : Book1850-1899 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Print : Book1850-1899 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett Victor Hugo Les Miserables Print : Book1850-1899 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson Emily Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson Thomas Hardy Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson Victor Hugo Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson James Thomson The Seasons Print : Book1850-1899 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius' Thomas Thompson Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius' Thomas Thompson William Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1850-1899 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius' Thomas Thompson Oliver Wendell Holmes Print : Book1850-1899 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius' Thomas Thompson Marcus Aurelius [Meditations]? Print : Book1850-1899 'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating books it has been my happy fortune to meet with".' Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford Samuel Smiles Self Help Print : Book1850-1899 Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls:
"Bill couldn't read a bit, but he... Charley anon [penny dreadfuls] Print : Serial / periodical, penny dreadful1850-1899 Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls:
Charley reads penny dreadfuls to ... Charley ? Tyburn Dick Print : Serial / periodical, penny dreadful1850-1899 '[Chester Armstrong's] political consciousness was awakened when his father, a self-help Radical, read aloud the weekly paper, which brought home the horrors of the Afgha... [weekly paper] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve... Chester Armstrong Daniel Defoe Print : Book1850-1899 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve... Chester Armstrong Frederick Marryat Print : Book1850-1899 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve... Chester Armstrong James Fenimore Cooper Print : Book1850-1899 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve... Chester Armstrong Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve... Chester Armstrong Jules Verne Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Robert Burns Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong John Keats Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Alfred Lord Tennyson Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong George Gordon, Lord Byron Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Walt Whitman Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong William Wordsworth Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Robert Browning Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Charles Darwin Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Thomas Henry Huxley Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong British Weekly Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Emile Zola Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Henrik Johan Ibsen Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong George Meredith Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Oscar Wilde Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora THompson Samuel Richardson Pamela Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora THompson Walter Scott Waverley Novels Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson George Gordon Lord Byron Don Juan Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson Jane Austen Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson Anthony Trollope Print : Book1850-1899 'V.S. Pritchett had an uncle, an atheist cabinet-maker, who taught himself to read from The Anatomy of Melancholy, even acquiring a few Latin and Greek words from the not... Arthur Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy Print : Book1850-1899 'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying day she had not completely grasped the nature of fi... Henry Fielding Tom Jones Print : Book1850-1899 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ... Thomas Thompson Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1850-1899 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ... Thomas Thompson John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1850-1899 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ... Thomas Thompson [Old Testament] Print : Book1850-1899 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ... Thomas Thompson [tale of Robin Hood] Print : Book1850-1899 'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy") and he found similar thrills in the Bible, at leas... John Paton [Old and New Testament] Print : Book