√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 Maria Branwell to Patrick Bronte, 18 November 1812: 'On Saturday ev[enin]g about the time when you were writing your description of an imaginary shipwreck, I was reading ... Maria Branwell Letter from sister Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 16 March 1850: 'I return Mr Thornton Hunt's note after reading it carefully.' Charlotte Bronte Thornton Hunt Note Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure; the autobiography with which it commence... Charlotte Bronte Robert Southey Life Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure ... I have likewise read one of Miss Aust... Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1850-1899 Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, c.29 April 1850: 'I have seen some extracts from "Shirley" in which you talk of women working.' Mary Taylor Charlotte Bronte Shirley (extracts) Unknown 1850-1899 Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850: 'On Wednesday I began "Shirley" and continued in a curious confusion of mind till now ...' Mary Taylor Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 18 September 1850: 'You should be very thankful that books cannot "talk to each other as well as to their readers" ... Dr Knox alone, wi... Charlotte Bronte Robert Knox The Races of Men: A Fragment Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 28 September 1850, on preparing to write preface to new edition of "Wuthering Heights": 'I am ... compelling myself to read it... Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Unknown 1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith (mother of her publisher George Smith), 17 April 1851: 'Before I received your note, I was nursing a comfortable and complacent conviction t... Charlotte Bronte Mrs Smith Note to Charlotte Bronte Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 23 October 1850: ' .. my late occupation left a result for some days and indeed still, very painful. The reading over of papers, the ren... Charlotte Bronte Bronte family papers Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850: 'I have just finished reading the "Life of Dr Arnold", but now when I wish -- in accordance with your request -- to exp... Charlotte Bronte Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Life of Dr Arnold Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 3 December 1850: 'On referring to Mr Newby's letters, I find in one of them, a boast that he is "advertising vigorously."' Charlotte Bronte Newby letter Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 February 1851: 'Have you yet read Miss Martineau's and Mr Atkinson's new work "Letters on the Nature and Development of Man?" ... It ... Charlotte Bronte Harriet and H. G. Martineau and Atkinson Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Developmen... Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 14 February 1852, after having been lent the first volume of W. M. Thackeray, "Henry Esmond", in manuscript by her publishers: 'It has b... Charlotte Bronte William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Henry Esmond (volume I) Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 12 January 1853, regarding timings of publications of her and Gaskell's new works: ' ... I had felt and expressed to Mr Smith -- re... Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell Ruth Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, May 1853: 'The "Lectures" arrived safely; I have read them through twice. They must be studied to be appreciated ... I was present at t... Charlotte Bronte William Makepeace Thackeray Lectures Print : Book1800-1849 Patrick Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, June 1853, regarding Gaskell's planned visit to Haworth: 'From what I have heard my Daughter say of you, and from the perusal of your... Patrick Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell novels Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte Nicholls to Ellen Nussey, 20 October 1854: "Arthur has just been glancing over this note -- He thinks I have written too freely ..." Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Bronte note to Ellen Nussey Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Wilkie Collins Household Words - "Perils of certain English Priso... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Charles Dickens Household Words - "Perils of certain English Priso... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Q: Did your father read?
A: No. He was a poor reader. He would rather my mother read to him, I think, read him the book and tell him the plot. He would have the paper, ... [unknown books] Print : Book1900-1945 Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who read it?
A: It was m'dad, he would read it from b... The People Print : Newspaper1900-1945 Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who read it?
A: It was m'dad, he would read it from b... Lancashire Daily Post Print : Newspaper, local newspaper1800-1849 'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrims progress and was by a quotation directed to the 33... Joseph Mayett John Bunyan Pilgrim's progress Print : Book1800-1849 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists".... Thomas Carter [n/a] The Spectator Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) Magazine. It contains many slan... Thomas Carlyle Blackwoods Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him... Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia Voltaire [pseud.] Zadig Print : Book1800-1849 'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued epistle of my friend. Doubtless you are disposed to... Thomas Carlyle various [histories] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same causes still obstruct my progress You will perhaps ... Thomas Carlyle William Wallace 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica Print : Book1800-1849 I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. Thomas Carlyle David Hume History of England Print : Book1800-1849 I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called... Thomas Carlyle Tobias Smollett History of England Print : Book1800-1849 I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called... Thomas Carlyle Edward Gibbon Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1800-1849 But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another opportunity. At any rate the Second volume is not finis... Thomas Carlyle David Hume Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols Print : Book1700-1799 '[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favour of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the "Spectator" and "Tatler". His narrative of how he m... Benjamin Franklin The Spectator Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 '[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favor of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the "Spectator" and "Tatler".' Benjamin Franklin The Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1500-1599 'then I Came home and did studie my lector, and read a whill' Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1500-1599 'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after which I hilped to read of the book for the placing of... Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".' John Clare Cinderella Print : Book1700-1799 '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".' John Clare Little Red Riding Hood Print : Book1700-1799 '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".' John Clare Jack and the Beanstalk Print : Book1500-1599 'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how "divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an... Poor men of Chelmsford New Testament Print : Book1500-1599 'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how 'divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an... New Testament Print : Book1500-1599 'when I had praied priuatly I did read of the Bible allmost vntell dinner time' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I brake my fast: soon after that I hard som chapters of the bible read' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and wa... Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'After praier in the morninge, I, beinge not well, did heare Mr Rhodes read of Gyffard upon the songe of Sallemon: sone after I went to breakfast' Richard Rhodes George Gifforde Sermons upon the Songe of Salomon Print : Book1850-1899 'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed' John Buckley Castieau [n/a] [unknown - newspaper] Print : Newspaper1500-1599 'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and wa... Margaret Hoby [unknown] Diet of the Soul Print : Book1500-1599 'then I was busie and hard Mr Rhodes Read his Catechismie tell 5' Richard Rhodes [n/a] Catechism Print : Book1600-1699 In Will of Robert Keayne of Boston: 'As my special gift to ... [his son] my little written book in my closet upon I Cor. II, 27, 28, which is a treatise on the sacrament ... Robert Keayne Treatise on I. Corinthians II.27, 28 Manuscript : Codex, Leather bound pocketbook1700-1799 Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I th... Sarah Osborn Bible passages Print : Book1700-1799 Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I th... Sarah Osborn Joseph Alleine Alarm for the Unconverted Print : Book1500-1599 'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and... Margaret Hoby [unknown] [sermon] Print : Book1600-1699 The mother of Carteret Rede remembered that when 'I came up into her Chamber, I found her reading Mr. John Janeway's "Life and Death"; she was all in Tears ...' Carteret Rede John Janeway Life and Death Print : Book1500-1599 'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and... Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's journey to the heavenly Canaan, by Mr. Erskine.'" Joseph Croswell Mr. Erskine [spiritual autobiography] Unknown 1700-1799 Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's journey to the heavenly Canaan, by Mr. Erskine.'" Joseph Croswell Mr. Erskine Unknown 1500-1599 'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and... Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1600-1699 As temporary President in Virginia, John Smith 'had the "letters patent" [for governing of the colony] read aloud "each week" in order to bolster his authority.' Letters patent for governance of colony Unknown 1600-1699 At meeting of new representative assembly for colony of Virginia in 1619, 'The man appointed speaker, John Pory, a veteran of the House of Commons, began the meeting by r... John Pory Anon Charter of Virginia Assembly Unknown 1850-1899 'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.' John Buckley Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1600-1699 'Rereading, some twenty years later, correspondence from the 1650s collected at Swarthmore Hall, [George] Fox crossed out passages he now deemed inappropriate ...' George Fox Quaker correspondence Manuscript : Letter1700-1799 "... [In the 1720s] William Byrd (1674-1744) of Westover, Virginia, was keeping up with the classics in his private reading." William Byrd Print : Book1600-1699 " ... in Springfield when a printed copy of the code of laws of 1648 arrived in 1649, it was promptly 'published,' that is, read aloud to a gathering of the townspeople."... anon Code of Laws 1648 Print : Unknown1800-1849 I, who was the reader, had not seen it for several years, the rest did not know it at all. I am afraid I perceived a sad change in it, or myself ? which was worse; and th... Lady Louisa Stuart Henry Mackenzie The Man of Feeling Print : Book1800-1849 I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And when I read it, as I was a girl of fourteen not yet ver... Lady Louisa Stuart Henry Mackenzie The Man of Feeling Print : Book1900-1945 'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an... Jack Jones Leo Tolstoy [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an... Jack Jones Fyodor Dostoevsky [most works] Print : Book1900-1945 'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an... Jack Jones Maxim Gorky [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Robert Burns [poetry] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Walter Scott [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Charlotte Bronte [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Elizabeth Gaskell [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher [unknown] [children's comics] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Charles Dickens Little Dorrit Print : Book1900-1945 'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards's stories in the Gem and Magnet] taught him to be "very loyal" to the headmaster and teachers at his old Boa... Frederick Willis Frank Richards [stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards' stories in the Gem and Magnet] 'taught him to be "very loyal" to the headmaster and teachers at his old Boa... Frederick Willis Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly absorbed all the stock phrases and attitudes assoc... Edward Ezard Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly absorbed all the stock phrases and attitudes associ... Edward Ezard Frank Richards [stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'For Paul Fletcher, a colliery winder's son in a Lancashire mining town, the Magnet's appeal lay precisely in that "code of schoolboy honour". "Although I never realised ... Paul Fletcher Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'A.J. Mills, a charlady's son, recalled that his teachers made a pathetic attempt to teach an honour system but "the nearest any of us got to knowing about the honour sys... A.J. Mills Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and Magnet, which "brought brightness into my rather humd... Lionel Fraser Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and Magnet, which "brought brightness into my rather humd... Lionel Fraser Frank Richards [stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a world I never expected to join". As an adult he appreci... Bryan Forbes Frank Richards [stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a world I never expected to join". As an adult he appreci... Bryan Forbes Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school exp... Louis Battye Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school exp... Louis Battye Frank Richards [stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Angela Brazil inspired Kathleen Betterton (whose father operated a lift in the London Underground) to ascend the scholarship ladder to Christ's Hospital in Hertford and ... Kathleen Betterton Angela Brazil [school stories] Print : Book1900-1945 'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and slang. Pritchett's father eventually found them, burn... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Frank Richards [school stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and slang. Pritchett's father eventually found them, burn... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Frank Richards [school stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a cupboard. "What a joy to share my bed with Tom Merry ... Amy Gomm Frank Richards [school stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a cupboard. "What a joy to share my bed with Tom Merry ... Amy Gomm Frank Richards [school stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o... Frank Richards [school stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Read "Leader" and Scherr'. George Eliot [pseud] [various] The Leader Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o... Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's School Days Print : Book1850-1899 'Read "Macbeth".' George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Macbeth Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o... Talbot Baines Reed The Fifth Form at St Dominic's Print : Book1900-1945 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ... Walter Citrine Pelham Grenville Wodehouse [short school story] Print : Book1900-1945 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ... Walter Citrine [unknown] [school stories from The Captain] Print : Book1900-1945 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ... Walter Citrine Karl Marx [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott [unknown] [boys' weeklies] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott George Bernard Shaw [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott Herbert George Wells [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott John Rodrigo Dos Passos [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott John Steinbeck [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a... Hymie Fagan Frank Richards [school stories in The Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a... Hymie Fagan Frank Richards [school stories in The Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a... Hymie Fagan Talbot Baines Reed [school stories] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall n/a The Magnet Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall n/a The Boy's Own Paper Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall George Alfred Henty [novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall n/a The Clarion Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall n/a The Freethinker Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall A.K. von Huhn The Struggle of the Bulgarians for National Indepe... Print : Book1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall Richard Brinsley Sheridan (pen name? in any case, not the 18th c playwright) The Filipino Martyrs Print : Book1700-1799 Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aeneid".' Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney Alexander Pope Works Print : Book1700-1799 Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aeneid".' Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney Virgil Aeneid Print : Book1700-1799 Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'." Frances Burney Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey Print : Book1700-1799 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H... Frances Burney novels Print : Book1700-1799 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H... Frances Burney Homer Print : Book1700-1799 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H... Frances Burney ancient history Print : Book1700-1799 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H... Frances Burney Print : Book1700-1799 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H... Frances Burney Print : Unknown1700-1799 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica... Frances Burney Elizabeth and Richard Griffith A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Fran... Print : Book1700-1799 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica... Frances Burney Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Print : Book1700-1799 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica... Frances Burney Samuel Johnson Rasselas Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Plutarch Lives Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Homer Iliad Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Alexander Pope Works Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Alexander Pope Letters Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney David Hume The History of England Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Nathaniel Hooke Roman History Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Conyers Middleton Life of Cicero Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Denis Diderot treatise on music Print : Book1700-1799 Charles Burney on his first reading of Frances Burney, "Evelina": 'I perused the first Vol. with fear and trembling, not supposing she wd disgrace her parentage, but not ... Charles Burney Frances Burney Evelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the Worl... Print : Book1700-1799 'On 2 August [1779], Charles Burney at Chessington read ... [The Witlings] aloud to a party which included [Samuel] Crisp, Crisp's sister Sophia Gast and the other Chessi... Charles Burney Frances Burney The Witlings Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 Susanna Burney describes Charles Burney's reading of The Witlings at Chessington on 2 August 1779, to Frances Burney: " 'Good' sd. Mr. Crisp ... the name of Codger occasi... Charles Burney Frances Burney The Witlings Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 Frances Burney to Hester Thrale, 22 January 1781, on reading account of Thrale's apperance at court on 18 January 1781 in Pacific island-inspired costume: 'Lord, if you h... Frances Burney newspapers Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Mrs. Thrale offered the kind of readings [of work in progress, ie Cecilia] Burney ... most valued, instant impressions before the whole novel had been read -- or finishe... Hester Lynch Thrale Frances Burney Cecilia Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'When he was writing ... "Things as They Are" (1794) ... [William] Godwin studied "Cecilia".' William Godwin Frances Burney Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress Print : Book1700-1799 Copied by Frances Burney into her journal letters, from Samuel Hoole, "Aurelia" (1783):
'I stood, a favouring muse, at Burey's side,
To lash unfeeling Wealth and stub... Frances Burney Samuel Hoole Aurelia 1700-1799 ' ... [The Mysterious Mother (1768)] was read aloud by Mr Smelt and Frances Burney in November 1786. Burney was horrified ...' Frances Burney and Leonard Smelt Horace Walpole The Mysterious Mother Print : Book1700-1799 'I have heard Doctor Collier say [wrote Hester Thrale in undated letter] that Harry Fielding quite doated upon his Sister Sally till she had made herself through ... Dr. ... Sarah Fielding Virgil Print : Book1700-1799 'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...' The Hon. Stephen Digby William Falconer The Shipwreck Print : Book1700-1799 Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794). Frances Burney Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho Print : Book1800-1849 '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan... Frances Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein 1800-1849 '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan... Frances Burney Catherine Talbot 1800-1849 '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan... Frances Burney Hester Chapone Unknown 1800-1849 On Frances Burney d'Arblay's married life in France: 'With affection and friendship, the pleaseures of attending the theater and reading works of French literature such a... D'Arblay family Alain Le Sage Gil Blas Print : Book1800-1849 'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When she read his Memoirs, she found them incomplete, and... Frances Burney Charles Burney Memoirs Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 '[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...' Frances Burney Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho Print : Book1700-1799 '[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...' Frances Burney Ann Radcliffe The Italian Print : Book1800-1849 '... Anne Thackeray ... discovered ... [Burney's Diary and Letters] in her father's library and felt inspired to become a diarist and novelist ...' Anne Thackeray Frances Burney The Diary and Letters Print : Book1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan n/a The Magnet Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan n/a The Gem Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan H. Rider Haggard [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan William Le Queux [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan John Buchan [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan Phillips Oppenheim [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her... Chaim Bermant n/a The Beano Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her... Chaim Bermant Beatrix Potter [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her... Chaim Bermant n/a The Glasgow Herald Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her... Chaim Bermant n/a The Manchester Guardian Print : Newspaper1900-1945 '[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican view of history. During the First World War, when the h... Jim Flowers Thomas Paine [unknown -Rights of Man?] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican view of history. During the First World War, when the h... Jim Flowers n/a The Daily Chronicle Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp... Wilfred Pickles John Keats [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp... Wilfred Pickles Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp... Wilfred Pickles George Bernard Shaw [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp... Wilfred Pickles John Galsworthy [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abroad, Chaliapin, Caruso, and European affairs. But har... Mark Twain [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abroad, Chaliapin, Caruso, and European affairs. But har... [unknown] [travel books] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley n/a Mercure de France Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Moliere [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Gerhart Hauptmann [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Pedro Calderon de la Barca [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Hermann Sudermann [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Henrik Ibsen [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Jonas Lie [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley August Strindberg [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Honore de Balzac Eugenie Grandet Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Fathers and Sons Print : Book1850-1899 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t... Flora Thompson Royal Reader Print : Book1850-1899 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t... Flora Thompson [history reader] Print : Book1850-1899 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t... Flora Thompson Giovanni Battista Belzoni Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries... Print : Book1900-1945 '...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his conceptions had sunk into his subconscious. As he sai... Arnold Bennett Guy de Maupassant Bel-Ami Print : Book1900-1945 [Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre... Harry Burton Frederick W. Farrar [St Winifred's School Stories] Print : Book1900-1945 'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been done to him.' Arnold Bennett Guy de Maupassant Une Vie Print : Book1900-1945 [Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre... Harry Burton Talbot Baines Reed [School Stories] Print : Book1900-1945 [Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre... Harry Burton Frank Richards [School Stories in the Magnet and the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same kind of epiphanies as other classic literature. Anso... Alexander Somerville George Anson A Voyage Round the World Print : Book, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in Paris, which he read with great admiration in March 1... Arnold Bennett Joris Karl Huysmans Les Soeurs Vatards Print : Book1800-1849 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par... "Jacques", a flax dresser George Anson A Voyage Round the World Print : Book1800-1849 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par... "Jacques", a flax dresser James Cook [Accounts of three voyages round the world] Print : Book1800-1849 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par... "Jacques", a flax dresser James Bruce Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the... Print : Book1800-1849 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par... "Jacques", a flax dresser Mungo Park Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Perfo... Print : Book1850-1899 " ... in the early 1870s, the ten-year-old Annabel Huth Jackson 'was terribly frightened by the episode of the mad woman tearing the wedding veil' in Jane Eyre, although ... Annabel Huth Jackson Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 '. . . Jules Claretie's "L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871." He says that he "looked at the pictures" in Claretie (though there is little doubt that he read it to... Arnold Bennett Jules Claretie L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871 Print : Book1600-1699 "In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to t... Elizabeth Baker Scriptures Unknown 1600-1699 ... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest_, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to s... Elizabeth Baker Richard Baxter The Saints Everlasting Rest Print : Book1900-1945 'And Bennett had now become a man of influence, largely through his "New Age" pieces. These articles, which he had begun in 1908, were widely read and admired . . . Ford... Ford Madox Ford Arnold Bennett New Age Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sources'. Arnold Bennett unknown Victoria History of the Potteries Print : Book1900-1945 "He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it as a good test, to see if his lines could withstand... Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett The Honeymoon Manuscript : Sheet1900-1945 '. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and are still remembered. Bennett must have felt a justif... Arnold Bennett Pauline Smith The Little Karoo Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c.3 April 1792: '"A soul prepard needs no delays/
The summons come the Saint obey —/
Swift was his flight & short the road/... Robert Southey anon [memorial verse] Print : monument1900-1945 'Bennett had read "Ann Veronica", which Wells had sent him that October with an inscription "The Young Mistress's Tale, to Arnold B. with love from his nephew H.G.": he h... Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells Ann Veronica Print : Book1900-1945 '. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'. Arnold Bennett William Shaw When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter Print : Book1850-1899 "Winnie Seerbohm, who left Newnham College, Cambridge in November 1885 after only one term's study, suffered from what seems retrospectively to have been nervous asthma c... Winnie Seerbohm John Ruskin The Stones of Venice Print : Book1850-1899 Ruskin on two American girls on train between Venice and Verona: "'...they had French novels, lemons, and lumps of sugar to beguile their state with; the novels hanging t... Female American travelling-companions French novels Print : Book1850-1899 'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed that the Recreative Evening Homes were an alternative ... stories Print : Unknown1850-1899 'To counteract [Sunday School pupils' imitating bad deeds of children in children's storybooks] ... [M. C.] Mondy read the same books "and gave the early part of the afte... M. C. Mondy stories Print : Book1850-1899 'Pupils at Queen's College remembered the puritanical standards imposed by Owen Breen, English and Elocution Professor there in the 1890s. L. V. Hodson notes that when r... English class, Queen's College Richard Brinsley Sheridan Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particu... E. Terry anon Middle High German love-lyric Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particu... anon Middle High German love-lyric Print : Book1900-1945 '... Vera Brittain, attending her aunt's school in Surrey shortly before the First World War, glossed her [the aunt's] practice of allowing them to read extracts [ie cutt... Female pupils at Surrey school anon The Times (extracts) Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full stop [on coming to episode unfit for children] ... s... Elizabeth Sewell Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Crawford Fraser recalled how a contemporary at the boarding-school run by her aunt, with a background in trade, was expelled for reading from unsuitable passages of... Rosie Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford Print : Book1900-1945 'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] forfeited that privilege when a sub-prefect reported h... Margaret Cole Thomas Babington Macaulay Essays Print : Book1850-1899 'Annabel Huth Jackson recalls the impact of a copy of Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads" at Cheltenham Ladies' College: "half the house went mad over it and we copied out mo... Pupils at Cheltenham Ladies' College Algernon Swinburne Poems and Ballads Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Walter Scott Old Mortality Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler The Farringdons Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... L. T. Meade By Mutual Consent Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Walter Besant To Call Her Mine Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Walter Besant Katherine Regina Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Walter Besant Self or Bearer Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Charles Dickens The Cricket on the Hearth Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Charles Kingsley Hypatia Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler Concerning Isabel Carnaby Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... William Makepeace Thackeray The Virginians Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Evelyn Everett-Green The Head of the House Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... A Double Thread Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Margaret Oliphant The Heir-Presumptive and the Heir-Apparent Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Print : Book1850-1899 Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Ewing Print : Book1850-1899 Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Charlotte Yonge Print : Book1850-1899 Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Walter Scott The Talisman Print : Book1850-1899 Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Walter Scott Quentin Durward Print : Book1800-1849 Josephine Butler [nee Grey] remembered her mother's '[assembling] us daily for the reading aloud of some solid book ... by a kind of examination fllowing the reading alou... Grey Family Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's... Florence Barclay Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's... Florence Barclay Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's... Florence Barclay Charlotte Mary Yonge The Little Duke Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's... Florence Barclay Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-fo... Young Lady Aberdeen and under-butler Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-fo... Young Lady Aberdeen and mother Mavor's spelling book Print : Book1800-1849 'Writing an addendum entitled "The Interruptions" to the copious journal which she kept in the early 1830s, Emily Shore gave a wry picture of the difficulties attendant o... Emily Shore and mother Joshua Reynolds Discourses on Art Print : Book1800-1849 'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of the house lived in by her family [to read], in the ... Frances Mary Buss 1850-1899 'Zoe Proctor [sic] (b. 1867) describes how, during the 1870s, when her father was governor of
the County Gaol at Bury St Edmunds, she "could not gain sufficient solitud... Zoe Procter [Anon] [Anon] story books Print : Book1850-1899 'Margaret Cole read early volumes of "The Girl's Own Paper" belonging to her mother (and found them dated and over-moralistic).' Margaret Cole The Girl's Own Paper Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Amy Barlow, writing of the late 1890s, recalls how her mother seemed to have a vivid memory of her childhood reading, and would recommend enthusiastically to her daughte... Amy Barlow Elizabeth Wetherell The Old Helmet Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".' George Anson Voyage Round the World Print : Book1800-1849 'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".' William Lempriere Tour to Morocco Print : Book1800-1849 'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma"'. History of Montezuma Print : Book1850-1899 'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha... Lillian Faithfull and mother William B Carpenter Principles of Mental Physiology Print : Book1850-1899 'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha... Lillian Faithfull and mother H. T. Buckle History of Civilisation Print : Book1850-1899 'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha... Lillian Faithfull and mother John Seeley Ecce Homo Print : Book1850-1899 '[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on hydraulics Print : Book1850-1899 '[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on astronomy Print : Book1900-1945 Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began to read French stories, those to which I returned mos... Enid Starkie French fiction Print : Book1900-1945 "Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener Tom Houghton; sneaking into the kitchen to spirit aw... Ellen Clifford Print : Book1900-1945 At first it was thought that Jeremy was deaf - but tests showed that his hearing was perfect. When the condition [dyslexia] was finally diagnosed his mother read to him ... Elizabeth Edith Huggins Print : Unknown1850-1899 ' ... [Dora Montefiore (b. 1851)] recalls her father's ... practice of looking up Shakespeare's views on any topic which came up in conversation in a Concordance ...' Concordance to Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31). Beryl Lee Booker Henry Fielding Tom Jones Print : Book1850-1899 In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31). Beryl Lee Booker Susan Coolidge What Katy Did Print : Book1850-1899 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou... Henry Maynard Monier Williams work/s on Eastern religions Print : Book1850-1899 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou... Henry Maynard William Law Print : Book1850-1899 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou... Henry Maynard Jacob Boehme Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt... Constance Maynard John Milton Sonnets Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt... Constance Maynard William Cowper poetry Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt... Constance Maynard Washington Irving Orations Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt... Constance Maynard Alfred Tennyson poetry Print : Book1800-1849 In her edition of Mary Gladstone's "Diaries and Letters", Lucy Masterman would suggest that it was under her father's influence that Mary read Butler's "Analogy". Mary Gladstone Joseph Butler The Analogy of Religion Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', which made her reticent for years about the comfort and ... Elizabeth Sewell Joseph Butler The Analogy of Religion Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... when ... [Amy Barlow's] brother-in-law caught her sniffing over ... [Ethel Voynich, "The Gadfly" (1897)], he began to weep in [mock] sympathy.' Amy Barlow Ethel Voynich The Gadfly Print : Book1800-1849 Octavia Hill found "Tom Brown's Schooldays" 'one of the noblest works I have read' ... Octavia Hill Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's Schooldays Print : Book1850-1899 '["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she read "The Three Musketeers", which enabled her to step... Eleanor Farjeon Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers Print : Book1850-1899 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and "the Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothers Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and the "Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothers Sexton Blake Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothers The Magnet Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothers boys' school stories Print : Book, Serial / periodical, Unknown1800-1849 Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): 'When I was a girl I was passionately fond of reading ... I went to stay with a friend in the country, who had by some means o... Phyllis Browne miscellaneous novels Print : Book1800-1849 Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by him] I begged him to give me something to read. He... Thomas Dick Christian Philosopher Print : Book1800-1849 Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by him] I begged him to give me something to read. He... Phyllis Browne Thomas Dick Christian Philosopher Print : Book1800-1849 '... [Dorothea Beale] learnt to love Shakespeare through her father reading it aloud ...' Miles Beale William Shakespeare Print : Book1800-1849 '... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... ' Dorothea Beale and mother history Print : Book1800-1849 '... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... ' Dorothea Beale and mother general literature Print : Unknown1800-1849 After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ... Dorothea Beale history Print : Book1800-1849 After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ... Dorothea Beale The Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ... Dorothea Beale The Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ... Dorothea Beale Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to all your married friends "Woman's Mission" a 3/6d boo... George Eliot [pseud] Sarah Lewis Woman's Mission Print : Book1850-1899 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...' Florence White Susan Warner The Wide, Wide World Print : Book1850-1899 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...' Florence White Susan Warner Queechy Print : Book1850-1899 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...' Florence White Maria Charlesworth Ministering Children Print : Book1850-1899 'Lucy Lyttelton ... continued reading as avidly as ever after her marriage to Lord Frederick Cavendish, although she seems to have been happy that he should choose the bo... Lord and Lady Cavendish Charles Kingsley Westward Ho! Print : Book1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton gift books Print : Book1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton William Shakespeare Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton Walter Scott Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton texts on religion Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton historical studies Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton modern novels Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Mrs Benson, wife of the Headmaster of Wellington College, [scandalized] his friends by letting her children read George Eliot ...' Benson family George Eliot Print : Book1800-1849 ' ... Jean Curtis Brown and her friend Lucy [consumed] the forbidden magazine "Home Chat", borrowed from the kitchen on the cook's night out.' Jean Curtis Brown and friend Home Chat Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-... Joan Evans Alfred Tennyson poetry Print : Book1850-1899 Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-... Joan Evans Matthew Arnold poetry Print : Book1850-1899 '[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...' Mary St Leger Harrison philosophical texts Print : Book1850-1899 '[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...' Mary St Leger Harrison poetry Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley The Arabian Nights Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley Homer The Iliad Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley Homer The Odyssey Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley Walter Scott novels Print : Book1850-1899 Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfield" and then it had to be in secret' (p.7).' Mary Paley Marshall Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1800-1849 '[On grounds of propriety] Lucy Caroline Lyttelton's grandmother ... left out one chapter of ... [Adam Bede] ... when she was reading it aloud to her grandchildren ...' George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... as late as the 1890s, Harriet Shaw Weaver's mother was shocked when she came upon her adolescent daughter reading "Adam Bede" ... the local vicar was asked to call ... Harriet Shaw Weaver George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1850-1899 'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who lived with the family, to "gulp ... guilty pages of it" ... Susan Mitchell George Moore A Mummer's Wife Print : Book1850-1899 'A letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel Barrett tells of a sixty-year-old woman who believed that her morals had been injured by reading "Aurora Leigh" ...' Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh Print : Book1800-1849 '[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...' George Douglas Campbell poetry 1800-1849 '[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...' Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower poetry 1850-1899 ' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.' William Ewart Gladstone Latin texts Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.' William Ewart Gladstone Italian texts Print : Book1850-1899 ' ...[Lady Frances Balfour] was forbidden to read the second volume of ... [Uncle Tom's Cabin] "but human nature cannot be denied, and of course I read it" ...' Lady Frances Balfour Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Print : Book1850-1899 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... Helen Maria Lucy Swanwick science books Print : Book1850-1899 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick medical journals Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 "H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... H. M. Swanwick Geoffrey Chaucer Print : Book1850-1899 "H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... H. M. Swanwick La Fontaine Print : Book1850-1899 "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga... H. M. Swanwick Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Unknown1850-1899 "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga... H. M. Swanwick Charles Dickens Bleak House Print : Unknown1850-1899 "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga... H. M. Swanwick Walter Scott The Heart of Midlothian Print : Book1850-1899 "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga... H. M. Swanwick Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Print : Book1850-1899 "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga... H. M. Swanwick Dante Gabriel Rossetti poems including Jenny Print : Book1850-1899 "Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p... Tiddy Alfred Tennyson poems including The Revenge Print : Book1850-1899 "Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p... Mary Stocks and siblings Alfred Tennyson poems including The Revenge Print : Book1850-1899 "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's... Marie Stopes Robert Browning Print : Book1850-1899 "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's... Marie Stopes Algernon Swinburne Print : Book1850-1899 "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's... Marie Stopes William Shakespeare Sonnets Print : Book1850-1899 "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's... Marie Stopes William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis Print : Book1850-1899 "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's... Marie Stopes Edward Carpenter Love's Coming of Age Print : Book1850-1899 "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med... Vera Brittain popular novels Print : Book1850-1899 "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med... Vera Brittain Household Medicine Print : Book1850-1899 "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med... Vera Brittain The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med... Vera Brittain Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1850-1899 "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med... Vera Brittain George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1850-1899 "... [the young Cicely Hamilton] found a dusty copy of Eugene Sue's Juif Errant in a cupboard and with the aid of a dictionary, read it from cover to cover. The fact tha... Cicely Hammill Eugene Sue Juif Errant Print : Book1850-1899 "... [the young Cicely Hamilton] found a dusty copy of Eugene Sue's Juif Errant in a cupboard and with the aid of a dictionary, read it from cover to cover. The fact tha... Cicely Hammill French dictionary Print : Book1850-1899 "Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb... Laura Knight Edgar Allen Poe Print : Book1850-1899 "Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb... Laura Knight The Ingoldsby Legends Print : Book1850-1899 "Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb... Laura Knight The Boy's Own Paper Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..." Angela Brazil John Foxe Book of Martyrs 1900-1945 'In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]' Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells New Machiavelli, The Print : Book1900-1945 'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audience of Marguerite Sheldon and Knoblock's agent Miss Ka... Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett Milestones Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'When it rained, Bennett stayed in the cabin and read Dostoevsky.' Arnold Bennett Fyodor Dostoyevsky unknown Print : Book1850-1899 "Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tapestry Chamber': 'was a disturber of my rest for years... Cicely Hamilton Walter Scott Works including The Tapestry Chamber Print : Book1850-1899 "Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tapestry Chamber': 'was a disturber of my rest for years... Cicely Hamilton The Ingoldsby Legends Print : Book1850-1899 Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ... Beatrice Webb John Stuart Mill Autobiography Print : Book1850-1899 Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ... Beatrice Webb Harriet Martineau Autobiography Print : Book1850-1899 Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ... Beatrice Webb George Sand Histoire de ma vie Print : Book1850-1899 Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ... Beatrice Webb William Wordsworth The Prelude Print : Book1900-1945 "Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she had been especially impressed by the passage in whic... Christine Longford Susan Warner The Wide, Wide World Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe John Milton Complete poetry Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Dante Alighieri Divina Commedia Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Torquato Tasso Gerusalemme Liberata Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Homer The Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Homer The Odyssey Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Virgil The Aeneid Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Lucan Pharsalia Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Aeschylus Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Sophocles Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Euripedes Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Ovid Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Tacitus Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Herodotus Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Thucydides Print : Book1800-1849 "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W... Frances Power Cobbe Anquetil du Perron Zend Avesta Print : Book1800-1849 "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W... Frances Power Cobbe Sir William Jones Institutes of Menu Print : Book1800-1849 "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W... Frances Power Cobbe Diogenes Laertius Print : Book1800-1849 "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W... Frances Power Cobbe translated ancient philosophical texts Print : Book1800-1849 "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W... Frances Power Cobbe Biographical Dictionary Print : Book1800-1849 "When she was seven ... [Frances Power Cobbe's] interest in religious subjects had been activated by hearing Bunyan read aloud to her brothers." Frances Power Cobbe John Bunyan Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Edward Gibbon Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe David Hume Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Tindal Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Collins Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Voltaire Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Marcus Aurelius Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Seneca Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Epictetus Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Plutarch Moralia Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon Memorabilia Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Plato Print : Book1800-1849 "... by August [1840] ... [Anne Jemima Clough admits in journal] doing 'one bad thing' (which turns out to be reading Byron's 'The Corsair') ..." Anne Jemima Clough George Gordon Lord Byron The Corsair Print : Book
