'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841:
'Mrs Jameson's early writings -- the Ennuyee for instance -- have an adroit leaning to
sentiment, which is [italics]sentimentality[end italics], & provokes one the more for the
excellent taste observable & admirable even there. In her later books, I do, I confess, see
much to admire. The conversations, for instance, on the state of art & literature in Germany
.. oh surely, we cannot all but admire their acuteness & eloquence & high intonation.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; and turn it over, & peep in, and read a sentence and shut it up to think over it's graceful suggestive wisdom in something of the 'gourmet' spirit of a child with an eatable dainty; which child, if it have the proper artistic sensuality of childhood, first looks it's cake over to appreciate the full promise of it's appearance, - next, snuffs up it's fragrance, - and gets to a fair & complete mouth-watering before it plunges into the first [italics] bite [end italics]. I do like your book. I liked it before, - I like it better now - it is like looking into deep clear water, - down below at every instant of prolonged gaze, one sees some fresh beauty or treasure of clear white pebble, or little shady nooks for fish to lurk in, or delicate water weds. Thank you for it. I do value it'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Several pages are transcribed from the 'Diary of an Ennuyee'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon] Print: Book
