?Here Hayley kept his books and manuscripts and the choicest pieces of his famous collection of Chinese porcelain. The walls were adorned with prints and drawings, and here also hung many paintings by Hayley?s friend George Romney. In this quiet room Mr Hayley and Mrs Opie would spend some hours together reading aloud, sometimes from a manuscript of Hayley?s or sometimes from one of Amelia?s tales.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Manuscript: Plays
?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
[Marginalia]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of the poem you had the goodness to send me; but you in return must give me yours of Dr. Cowper?s Malachi. I did not tell you how very ill I have been of the Cowper mania. I do not mean the doctor, but the delightful author of The Task. Read his letters by Hayley, and his life, as I did, and you will find them "Of power to take the captive soul/
And lap it in Elysium."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book
Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Have you read Hayley?s life of that dear amiable saint, Cowper? I have no patience with Hayley for expiating so minutely on Cowper?s praise whose life and works praise him beyond all that he can say...' [continues for a further page]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842:
'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs, -- & have actually scarcely laid aside
Hayley's Autobiography [goes on to criticise these texts in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens deficient in feelings if I had only read his Lusiad — but the Sonnets of Camoens are very beautiful. those given by Hayley in his notes to the Essay on Epic P. tho among the best are but a wretched specimen to the English reader. the translations are detestable — & the originals so printed as to be unintelligible. I bought some ballads in Spain in remembrance of Rio Verde — but they prove bad enough. but six months after my return I will tell you more.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
