the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Robert Bulwer-Lytton : Lucile

"I tried to read Lord Lytton's Lucile which is rot."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen      Print: Book

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton : Fables in Song

'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton : Fables in Song

'All right, I'll see what I can do. Before I could answer, I had to see the book; and my good father, after trying at all our libraries, bought it for me. I like the book; that is, some of it; and I'll try to lick up four or five pages for the "Fortnightly."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton : Fables in Song

?Friday. I have got on rather better with the ?Fables?; perhaps it won?t be a failure, though I still fear...Saturday...I just finished some of the deedest rubbish about Lord Lytton?s ?Fables?, that an intelligent editor ever shot into his waste paper basket.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

Robert Lytton : 

'...my father read aloud. He was a beautiful reader and I enjoyed much of what he read, but I have to confess that I got terribly bored by his own long narrative poems...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Lytton      Print: Book

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