| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Complete transcript of Cowper's poem. | Anon | William Cowper | The Negro's complaint | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ... | anon | Edward Lloyd | [various titles published by Lloyd] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Henry Mayhew's interview with an orphan flower girl and her sister:
"'We've always had good health. We can all read'.... | anon | | Garden of Heaven | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a sweet-stuff maker:
"One of the appliances of the sweet-stuff trade which I saw in the roo... | anon | | History of England | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, uncut sheets |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a long-song seller: to sell ballads he not only cries their titles, but also sings the songs h... | anon | | | Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a running patterer -seller of broadsheets mainly dealing with crime and breaking news, sometim... | anon | | | Print: Broadsheet |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet:
"I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I... | anon | Oliver Goldsmith | Edwin and Angelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'cheap John':
"From selling the printed songs, I imbibed a wish to learn to read, and, with... | anon | | | Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a blind female seller of 'small wares', the conversation turns to her younger son:
"My youn... | anon | | | Print: Book, Broadsheet, Serial / periodical, penny book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper:
"The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my fami... | anon | [n/a] | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski... | anon | | Examiner | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski... | anon | | Daily News | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski... | anon | | various | Print: Book, leaves from books used to wrap food purchases |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"My daughter is eighteen and my son eleven; that is my ... | anon | | Family Friend | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street entertainer -a 'blind reader':
"I was not born blind, but lost my sight four years... | anon | | Gospel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | Watts | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | John Wesley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | | religious magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | Clark | Lives of Pirates | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library? |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | | Tales of Shipwrecks | Print: Serial / periodical, probably penny numbers |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Windsor Castle | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | The Tower of London | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I thought I should make my fortune in London... | anon | | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, penny books |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three ... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | | Newgate Calendar | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Thomas Paine | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Volney | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | George Jacob Holyoake | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | | Claude du Val | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | | Newgate Calendar | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | | Lives of the Robbers and Pirates | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the a... | anon | Henry Brougham | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness | Print: proofManuscript: Unknown |
| | [Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any ... | Anon | Peter Cunningham | Lives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob Tonson | Manuscript: Pamphlet |
| | [Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified, but the same as that on MS about Tonson)]: Top LH corner, in penci... | Anon | | A Proposal | Print: Advertisement |
| 1600-1699 | " ... in Springfield when a printed copy of the code of laws of 1648 arrived in 1649, it was promptly 'published,' tha... | anon | | Code of Laws 1648 | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h... | anon | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h... | anon | George Eliot | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that
"'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an Afri... | anon | Olive Schreiner | The Story of an African Farm | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading... | anon | George Eiiot | Adam Bede | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | " ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time:
"'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intox... | anon | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediatel... | anon | Sir Philip Sidney | The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | "One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C1... | anon | John Milton | Paradise Regain'd/Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "To the Editors of the Attempt,
Gentlemen,
If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication ... | anon | | The Attempt | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | " ... an irritated reader of Jonathan Edwards's Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797) provides an epigr... | anon | Jonathan Edwards | Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and c... | anon | Richard Watson | A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains ... | anon | William Beckford | Annotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of Willia... | anon | William Mudford | Nubilia in Search of a Husband | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen... | anon | | LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likel... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but... | anon | | Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Manuscript: annotation in printed text |
| 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" ("prompted by the text") of a copy of Margaret Sandford, Thomas Poole and His... | anon | Mrs Henry Sandford | Thomas Poole and His Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... a tourist guide to Salisbury Cathedral, published about 1800 and acquired by the British Library in 1874, contai... | anon | | guide to Salisbury Cathedral | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradua... | anon | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations (adding"information and explanations") made to copy of Samuel Saunders, Short and Easy... | anon | Samuel Saunders | A Short and Easy Introduction to Scientific and Philosophic Botany | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes pencilled parodic completions by unknown (apparently male) reader of verses in The New School of L... | anon | | The New School of Love | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "A Victorian edition of a legal classic, the Institutes of Justinian, shows signs of careful and laborious study, with... | anon | Justinian | The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduction, Translation, and Notes, by Thomas Collett Sandars | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printin... | anon ("others") | Giles Widdowes | Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan | Print: Book, proof copy |
| 1600-1699 | "Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought up... | anon | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] som... | anon | Isaac Newton | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman... | anon | Harriet Martineau | volume containing "Garveloch" stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on plans for, and execution of, her work on Toussaint L'Ouverture: 'I went to my confidante, with a... | anon | Harriet Martineau | work on Toussaint L'Ouverture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospe... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Retrospect of Western Travel | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day,... | anon | Harriet Martineau | articles on Household Education | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers:
'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to ... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the 8th of May [1851], I [Harriet Martineau] went for a fortnight to stay with some friends, between whom and myse... | anon | Auguste Comte | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | ''This day the parson read a proclamacion at church for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for... | anon | [unknown] | A proclamation for observation of the thirtieth day of January as a day of fast and humiliation according to the late act of parliament for that purpose | Print: Handbill |
| 1600-1699 | The boy is 'discontented ... because I cannot understand that which I reade'. The Devil Magirus 'expounded the places ... | anon [a boy] | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we had reached a cell in the west wing, to which the first letter was addressed. The women were locked up in their ce... | anon | [unknown] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the laundry, the prisoner to whom the letter was given smiled gratefully in the clerk's face, as she thrust it int... | anon | [unknown] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading "Recreati... | anon | Rev Lewis Tomlinson | Recreations in Astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | Thomas Pearson | Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | [n/a] | Home Friend - a weekly miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | [n/a] | Saturday Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | Jonathan Edwards [?] | History of Redemption | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | [unknown] | Family Quarrel - an humble story | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Recognised among the prisoners a once eminent City merchant, sentenced to transportation for fraud: 'This person, we w... | anon | [unknown] | [French and German language books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In one of the yards we noticed...an old man of eighty, with hair as white as the prison walls themselves, and which w... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spok... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blo... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Once the head master had occasion to speak. A lad with ruddy skin, and light hair, had a defect in his speech, and co... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom in the female prison at Tothill Fields:
'The warder, to let us see the acquirements of her scholars, bade ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A young man sat in the corner of another cell with his cheek leaning on his hand and his elbow resting on the table. ... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison:
'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea... | anon | [unknown] | [lesson: either Bible or school textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison:
'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Pictures from the cells at Wandsworth:
'Before leaving, on the third day of our visit, we visited the cell where the ... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells:
'We first went to Gallery B, occupied by penal servitude men. In one cell we saw ... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells:
'In another cell we saw a respectable looking man in middle life, seated at his t... | anon | [unknown] | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Horsemonger Lane Gaol - Visiting the cells:
'On looking into another cell, we saw a prisoner sentenced to penal servi... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when s... | anon | Charles Dickens | [works] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'six months later I read the following announcement in the "Daily Chronicle": "Yesterday a smart and well-dressed youn... | anon | [n/a] | Daily Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Monday 26 October
'we are sailing this Morning 9 miles a hour if we go on at that rate we shall soone be ther i Don't... | anon | [n/a] | [funeral service] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Blaise Pascal | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Jean de La Fontaine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | [unknown] | [pestilent literature of rascaldom] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts:
'He then mentions the influence which ... | anon | [unknown] | [the barren fig tree] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts:
'He then mentions the influence which ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they... | anon | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chap... | anon | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set for... | anon | William Wordsworth | The Excursion (excerpts) | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Marginal notes appear throughout this book, on almost every page. These notes range from comments written in Latin sho... | anon | Petrus de Palude [?] | Sermones thesauri novi de tempore | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was, and the most pleasant and inn... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill:
30 October: Kingsmill visits man convicted for forgery on Austrian G... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill:
30 October: 'A very deaf prisoner was allowed a visit today from his... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'2. A vagrant tumbler, and low thief - naturally very shrewd, but from his habits of life,... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'9. A prizefighter. Under a false name he was convicted of highway robbery, innocent, he a... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'15. A farm labourer, of good capacity, who, having mastered here the alphabet and the art... | anon | [unknown] | [book on the Protestant martyrs] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'25. A letter-carrier, for a post-office felony. A man of dissolute and drunken habits; a ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts:
'37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard... | anon | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts:
'37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard... | anon | [n/a] | [Sunday newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts:
'41. Low company, a harsh schoolmaster, attending theatres, reading ... | anon | [unknown] | [novels and romances] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A prisoner on his admission could read but very imperfectly; his Bible he almost had never read before, and indeed kn... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'The writer of the following exercise was entirely ignorant of the contents of the Bible, an... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'I have never met with a less promising character than the writer of the two following exerc... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 87: 'An uncle died insa... | anon [87] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 240: 'Sister a lunatic.... | anon [240] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 264: 'An uncle deranged... | anon [264] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 26: 'Brother of No. 264... | anon [26] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 505: 'An aunt insane. C... | anon [505] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 353: 'Father had been i... | anon [353] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 670: 'An uncle in a lun... | anon [670] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 734: 'Sister a lunatic.... | anon [734] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 792: 'Brother died late... | anon [792] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 839: 'An uncle insane. ... | anon [839] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 814: 'A sister died in ... | anon [814] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister came and read prayers to the prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and addressed the Protestants' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners, and afterwards preached a sermon.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Catholic Prisoners had prayers and an exhortation read to them during the day.' | anon | | prayers and exhortation | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Prayers were read to the Catholic prisoners' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and delivered an Address to the Protestant prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The presbyterian minister read prayers to the prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Ramsay to James Graham-Clarke, 14 October 1826:
'Some time ago I sent a Copy of the little work of your highly... | anon | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 23 June 1827:
'I am glad Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] is so pleased with Irv... | anon | Irving | preface | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to William Johnson Fox, ?28 March 1833:
'You must not think me too incroaching, if I make the getti... | anon | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843:
'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals,... | anon | Philip James Bailey | Festus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the ... | anon. | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Katherine Ashton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as
military hospital] [...] a ... | anon | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 2 February 1913:
'I sent F[ollowing].D[arkness]. to a woman of another kind [i.e. th... | anon | Forrest Reid | Following Darkness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In front of the fire, the little plump cook read the evening paper aloud to the housemaid.
"'The Queen is now aslee... | anon [a cook] | | evening paper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following tribute was received [by Tennyson] from Scutari:
'"We had in hospital a man of the Light Brigade, on... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at ... | anon | | texts used in teaching self to read | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A district visitor was delivering tracts among a large meeting of some poor folk to whom she had lately read part of ... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | Enoch Arden | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | W. G. Clark, on a reader of Tennyson's 'The Northern Farmer':
'[?W. H.] Thompson has been staying at Fryston, where... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | The Northern Farmer | Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of 'Mr Creyke.' |
| 1850-1899 | From Tennyson's notes on Demeter and Other Poems:
'A lady tells me that when she read "The Northern Cobbler" at a v... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | The Northern Cobbler | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 27 March 1826:
'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow
L... | anon | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 27 March 1826:
'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow
L... | anon | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 28 June 1827:
'Visited on invitation a fine old little commodore Trunnion who, in reading a part of Napol... | anon | Walter Scott | Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko':
'"The editor was acquai... | anon | Aphra Behn | [?]Oroonoko | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko':
'"The editor was acquai... | anon | Aphra Behn | [?]Oroonoko | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry:... | anon | | 'lines to the earl of Oxford' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1754:
'Did you ever read a little French book called Theorie des ... | anon | Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly | Theorie des sentimens agréables | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:]
'I have been running about sadly since I wrote to you last, ... | anon | Thomas Newton | Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 July 1768, following expressions of concern over illness of Talbot's stepfat... | anon | | report of illness of Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 13 November 1769:]
'My sister and all her family are with me at present, amon... | anon | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:]
'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give... | anon | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [From letter to Clement Shorter from the niece of John Nunn:]
'In 1857 I was staying with Mr Nunn at Thorndon, in S... | anon | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842:
'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have lat... | anon | Branwell Bronte | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Algernon Charles Swinburne to Sir T. Wemyss Reid, in letter responding to Reid's Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph, 24 Sep... | anon | Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:
'I enclose for your perusal a scrap of ... | anon | Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [A former pupil of Cowan Bridge School, Yorkshire (the model for 'Lowood' in Jane Eyre), to
Charlotte Bronte's wi... | Anon | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minute... | Anon member of the XII Book Club | | Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 19 February 1935 | Manuscript: Notebook |