'Transcribe Peacocks poem'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Unknown
'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero Read Cobbett's Journal in America Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Monday June 25th. [...] Read Melincourt'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I remember. Doubtless, Peacock is a taste acquired in maturity. When I was young, reading him in a railway carriage in Greece, sitting opposite Thoby [Woolf, reader's brother], I remember, who pleased me immensely by approving my remark that Meredith had got his women from Peacock [...] And now more than anything I want beautiful prose [...] And I enjoy satire more. I like the scepticism of his mind more [...] And then they're so short; & I read them in little yellowish perfectly appropriate first editions.
'The masterly Scott has me by the hair once more. Old Mortality. I'm in the middle; & have to put up with some dull sermons; but I doubt he can be dull, because everything is so much in keeping [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I remember. Doubtless, Peacock is a taste acquired in maturity. When I was young, reading him in a railway carriage in Greece, sitting opposite Thoby [Woolf, reader's brother], I remember, who pleased me immensely by approving my remark that Meredith had got his women from Peacock [...] And now more than anything I want beautiful prose [...] And I enjoy satire more. I like the scepticism of his mind more [...] And then they're so short; & I read them in little yellowish perfectly appropriate first editions.
'The masterly Scott has me by the hair once more. Old Mortality. I'm in the middle; & have to put up with some dull sermons; but I doubt he can be dull, because everything is so much in keeping [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I remember. Doubtless, Peacock is a taste acquired in maturity. When I was young, reading him in a railway carriage in Greece, sitting opposite Thoby [Woolf, reader's brother], I remember, who pleased me immensely by approving my remark that Meredith had got his women from Peacock [...] And now more than anything I want beautiful prose [...] And I enjoy satire more. I like the scepticism of his mind more [...] And then they're so short; & I read them in little yellowish perfectly appropriate first editions.
'The masterly Scott has me by the hair once more. Old Mortality. I'm in the middle; & have to put up with some dull sermons; but I doubt he can be dull, because everything is so much in keeping [goes on to comment further on text]'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read
C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr
Miss Cole Love & Age
E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey
R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels
C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans Print: Book
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read
C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr
Miss Cole Love & Age
E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey
R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels
C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin Print: Book
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read
C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr
Miss Cole Love & Age
E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey
R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels
C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans Print: Book
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read
C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr
Miss Cole Love & Age
E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey
R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels
C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham Print: Book
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read
C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr
Miss Cole Love & Age
E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey
R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels
C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Cole Print: Book
'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general account of his writings. Extracts from his works were read
C.I. Evans The War Songs [sic] of Dinas Vawr
Miss Cole Love & Age
E.E. Unwin extracts from Nightmare Abbey
R.B. Graham Some of the poems from his novels
C.I. Evans Three men of Gotham'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis Print: Book
'I myself have been reading this week a book by a man named Love Peacock, of whom I had not
heard, but who seems to be famous. He was a contemporary of Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron etc., and
an intimate friend of Shelley. The book is a farcical novel called "Headlong Hall", and very
amusing.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
