'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says life is so vivid that books seem poor. The latter volumes of Bunsen are the only books that she even looked into here'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Nightingale Print: Book
'you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wished for your appreciation of Kate Winkworth's translation when we were at Heidelberg'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accept, the best books in the world (except the Bible), Homer and Plato [...] I have added two or three other books which I thought you might like to see, the translation of the Vedas as a specimen of the oldest thing in the world, Hegel's Philosophy of History, whiich is just "the increasing purpose that through the ages runs" buried under a heap of categories. If you care to look at it will you turn to the pages I have marked at the beginning? It is a favourite book of mine [...] I also send you the latest and best work on Mythology, and Bunsen's new Bibelbuch, which, from the little I have read, seems to be an interesting and valuable introduction to Scripture.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Jowett Print: Book
Catherine Winkworth to Emma Shaen, 23 March 1853:
'I made up my mind not to write to you again till I had read "Villette" and now I have finished
it [...] It is a thorough enjoyment to read it, so powerful everywhere [...]
'I have been reading another book, as unlike "Villette" as possible, whereof there are many
parts that [italics]do[end italics] go to the "innermost depths," and sink into them like water
into the dry ground, and that's Bunsen's "Hippolytus and His Age" [...] I have not seen the
fourth volume yet, and the other three I have read in a partial and desultory manner very
unbefitting such a work, but I shall go back to it again. Then there is a great deal of Greek and
Latin in it, and discussions concerning MSS., which are unintelligible to the unlearned, and
some of the English is not over-easy, but it is worth thinking about.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Winkworth Print: Book
[Letter]
'You were quite right in telling me I should like Bunsen if I persevered. [...] It is consoling to read such an intensely happy life as his was from beginning to end. [...] I shall be quite sorry to finish the book, and it does one good to enter into such a mind.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin Print: Book
