'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
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
