I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landlady.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book
"Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Blanche Hemming Print: Book
"Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Blanche Hemming Print: Book
"Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Blanche Hemming Print: Book
"Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair with early promise, having shelter from the wind and taking all the sunshine. The willow bushes hung over the stream as if they were angling with tasseled floats of gold & silver, bursting like a bean-pod. Between them came the water laughing like a maid at her own dancing, and spread with that young blue which never lies beyond the April. And on either bank, the meadow ruffled as the breeze came by, opening (through new tufts of green) daisy-bud or celandine, or a shy glimpse now & then of a love-lorn primrose.'"
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Blanche Hemming Print: Book
[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna Doone", Louisa May Alcott and the travels of Livingstone and Darwin'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book
[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have trembled with Jane Eyre as the first Mrs Rochester rent her bridal veil in maddened jealousy. I have been shipwrecked with Masterman Ready and on Pitcairn Island with Fletcher Christian. I have been a medieval page in Sir Nigel and Lorna Doone madly in love with 'girt Jan Ridd'".
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton Print: Book
'Read "Lorna Doone" and loved it. Must try to get it next hols.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
'Am reading "King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse", which is really glorious.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s History of England, both for the 2d time over & in the evening danced out the year at the Assembly.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book
'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
'Search in Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving [I] think, to be more talked of'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Book
'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jefferson Hogg Print: Book
[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of Shelley's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list.]
'Works of Theocritus Moschus &c - Greek
Prometheus of Eschylus - Greek
Works of Lucian - Greek
x Telemacho
La Nouvelle Heloise
x Blackwell's His. of the Court of August
De Natura Lucretius
Epistolae Plinii
Annals by Tacitus
Several of Plutarchs Lives - Greek
Germania of Tacitus
Memoires d'un Detenu
Histoire de la Revolution par Rabault and Lacretelle
Montaignes Essays
Tasso
Life of Cromwell
Lockes Essay
Political Justice
Lorenzo de Medicis
Coleridges Lay Sermon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831:
'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Blackstone through, I also read a little treatise by a Mr Hawkins an INFINITE Tory, entitled "Reform in Parliament, the ruin of Parliament"'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'He talked of Mr. Blacklock's poetry, so far as it was descriptive of visible objects; and observed, that "as its author had the misfortune to be blind, we may be absolutely sure that such passages are combinations of what he has remembered of the works of other writers who could see".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like "forestal."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Unknown
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Unknown
Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'Blackstone & I agree better than perhaps you imagine. true it is that I should like to write Commentaries upon his Commentaries — but mine would be an illegal book. the study fixes my attention sufficiently, when my attention begins to flag, I relieve myself by employing half an hour differently, & then set to again with fresh spirits. '
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have now gone thro Blackstone often & attentively, so repeatedly reperusing the more important parts, that I think I know the book well. nor does farther study of it now appear necessary or useful.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
'I get "Lorna Doone". It is a good book so far.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Book
'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne Isabella Milbanke's] parents actively befriended. Whether they took him seriously as a poet, or (like Byron) very much the reverse, Annabella [i.e. Anne Isabella] was impressed by his attempts. One of the early records is a copy of verses to her, "on her presenting the author with a beautiful edition of Cowper's Poems" -- just a year before Blacket's death in 1810, at twenty-three.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke
'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was his acquaintance with Joseph Blacket's poetry and fate. He thought slightingly of the poetry, as she was to learn; and not less slightingly of the patronage [from the Milbanke family] which, in his view, had done the poor young cobbler more harm than good.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron
'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence it is probably true that this was an essay drawn from real life rather than from any book read. It was a magnificent literary effort in the author's best style. Perhaps more of 'H.M.W.' than 'Ashton Hillier'.
Mrs Smith read a paper upon 'The Garden of Survival' a book by Alg. Blackwood. The paper gave rise to much interest. The extraordinary beauty of the extracts read from the book and the insight into the spiritual meaning of 'Guidance' displayed by the author impressed us all.
Ernest E. Unwin read a paper on 'The End of a Chapter' by Shane Leslie - this paper was written by H.M. Wallis & introduced most of us to a new writer of power. The change in the world, in the balance of the classes & their future importance formed the theme of the book.
Mary Hayward described her discovery of 'The Story of my Heart' by Richard Jefferies & read some extracts from it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith Print: Book
'... doubly read Cristowell by Blackmore.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier. A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature ("very good"), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life ("excellent"), the poems of Robert Bridges ("very good") Henry James's Madonna of the Future ("peculiar"), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae ("fourth or fifth time"), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society. "I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did. I understand him better."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan Print: Book
'Books read from Feby 16th/18
King Richard II Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream do.
Henry the Eighth do.
As You Like It do.
Ziska Marie Corelli
Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore
Don Quixote de la mancha Vol II
(Miguel de Cervantes Savedra)
Food of the Gods H. G. Wells
Odette's Marriage Albert Delpit
A Walking Gentleman James Prior
The Making of a Marchioness F. H. Burnett
Vixen Mrs. Braddon
The Magnetic North Eliz. Robins
A Roman Singer Marion Crawford
In the Reign of Terror G. A. Henty
Songs of a Sourdough R. W. Service
Forest Folk James Prior
John Henry Hugh McHugh
The Inviolable Sanctuary G. A. Birmingham'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Henry Jones Print: Book
'The other book — which I am denying myself to write to YOU, yes YOU of all people — is
from the library by Blackwood called "Uncle Paul". Oh, I have never read anything like it,
except perhaps "The Lore of Proserpine. When you have got it out of your library and read
how Nixie and Uncle Paul get into a dream together and went to a primaeval forest at dawn to
"see the winds awake" and how they went to the "Crack between yesterday and tomorrow you
will agree with me.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
(1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of ... "John Silence" in the 7d. edition.... It fairly
swept me off my feet, so that on Saturday night I hardly dared to go upstairs. I left off - until
next weekend - in the middle of the "Nemesis of Fire" — Oh, Arthur, aren't they priceless?
Particularly the "Ancient Sorceries" one, which I think I shall remember all my life.'(2) 'I have
now finished that adorable... "John Silence": I still think "Ancient Sorceries" the best, though
indeed all, particularly the "Fire" one, are glorious. In the last one the opening part, all about
those lovely Northern Islands and the camp life — wouldn't you love to go there? — is so very
beautiful that you feel almost sorry to have the supernatural dragged in. Though the idea of
the were-wolf is splendid. At what point of the story did you begin to guess the truth?'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
(1) 'I have also bought a 7d. Macmillan book by Algernon Blackwood called "Jimbo, a fantasy".
Although you have never mentioned it, I dare say you know there is such a book - I never
heard of it myself. I am keeping it to read in the train when I go back (Friday night), but I
have to restrain myself every moment — it looks so awfully appetizing.' (2) 'I finished it on
Sunday and am awfully bucked with it — a very good 7d. worth. It is quite in Blackwood's best
manner, and you will specially love the last thirty pages or so — they are terrific.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
'Tell Sylvia that when I came back [from Norfolk a
week before] I read the rest of "Uncle Paul’s
Education" and that though there are beautiful
things in it and a beautiful idea running through
the whole of it I don’t altogether like it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Book
'April at Scarboro''
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Good Print: Book
