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

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George Crabbe : 

'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before me.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Lady Barbara

'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can apply your remarks.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

George Crabbe : Ellen

'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can apply your remarks.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

George Crabbe : [sermons]

'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have not been altogether idle, for vamping old Sermons is to me no unpleasant kind of Employment.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Manuscript: Unknown

George Crabbe : The Mother's Funeral

From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Then died lamented in the strength of life 1827 "Called not away, when time had loosed each hold/ On the fond heart, and each desire grew cold; / But when to all that knit us to our kind,/ He felt fast-bound, as Charity can bind..." Crabbe.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Book

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