'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Molly Vivian Print: Book
'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the narrative & after I had finished it Flory went [smiling?] home & Sissy & Dotty went away good temperedly to bed. Read "Poor dog [Tray?]" out of ["Ingolitsby"?] to Harry & then sent him off to bed also'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'While Polly was away I read to Harry & Dotty one of the Ingoldsby's Legends'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'To-day I ... prepare myself for leaving England.
I read, whilst [here] the "Ingoldsby Legends"
entire, Second Part "King Henry IV," and more
cursorily "Midsummer Nights Dream" over again, and
First Part "King Henry IV." I enjoyed myself very
much. But now to fresh fields and pastures. I take
over in books: Shakespeare, Tennyson (to 156),
"Canterbury Tales" (Skeat, Oxford edition),
Vergil, "Aeneid" (I-VI), "Wilhelm Tell," "Golden
Treasury," "Pickwick," "Collected Verse" of
Rudyard Kipling, et alia; French, German, and
English Dictionaries; map (Daily
Telegraph). I hope at Folkestone to secure a
small Horace, an Iliad-let (Macmillan's Pocket
Edition), and "Don Quixote de la Mancha," I also
have my old Harvard Italian grammar, and "England
in the Middle Ages" by a Manchester woman, B.A.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wainwight Merrill Print: Book
