Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

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

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   1009 1010 1011 1012 1013  1014  1015 1016 1017 1018 1019   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'When Wilfrid Blunt joined [William] Morris and his daughter at Kelmscott in 1891, Morris "read us out several of his poems ... including The Haystack in the Floods, but ...William Morris William MorrisThe Haystack in the Floods (and other poems)Unknown
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Evelyn Everett-GreenThe Head of the HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'I like Capt. Younghusband's travels, though one might skip pages much like each other.'Emma Darwin Frances Edward YounghusbandThe Heart of a Continent:a Narrative of Travels in...Print: Book
1900-1945So, after riding with friends on Dartmoor by old ways known and loved since childhood, I would sit on their tennis court through the afternoons and read Philby's Ar...Freya Stark St John PhilbyThe Heart of Arabia: A Record of Travel and Explor...Print: Book
1900-1945'I did read most of Mr Philby's book in proof but I found it somehow difficult to get through — indeed I don't think I quite finished it. The style is so terribly a...Gertrude Bell Harry St. John PhilbyThe Heart of Arabia; a record of travel & explorat...Print: proofs
1800-1849'Arthur's seat like a couchant lion of immense size - Salisbury crags, like a huge [belt or] girdle of granite, were dimly visible. Sir Walter Scott'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Heart of Mid-LothianUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Walt Whitman ... recalled in old age ... [having read The Heart of Midlothian] "a dozen times or more"'.Walt Whitman Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1900-1945'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart of Midlothian and actually wept, at my age too, over ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1850-1899"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga...H. M. Swanwick Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's w...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you remember when Jeannie Deans went to London for her sister the gentle Gertie [sic--Geordie] Robertson gave her a [illegible] among the Robbers.'Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1850-1899'Once Laura had the honour of choosing two passages for the father of one of her friends, who had been invited to read and could not, as he said, think of anything likely...Flora Thompson Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is a grat difference of opinion about Scott's new novel. At Holland House it is much run down: I dare not oppose my opinion to such an assay or proof-house; but it...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his novels excepting that in which Claverhouse is introduc...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'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 M...Claire Clairmont Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1850-1899'One gravestone was erected by Scott .. to the poor woman who served him as a heroine in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and the inscription in its stiff Jedediah Cleishbotham ...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: gravestone
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 28 August 1819: 'I admire F. Lamb perhaps more than I like him. I think him uncommonly agreeable and...F. Lamb Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818: 'It was with your usual kindness that you sent us the "Heart of Midlothian," which we return with our best thanks. All t...Isaac D'Israeli and familyWalter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 2 January 1819:] 'Read the Heart of Midlothian.'Elizabeth Firth Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.


[...]

...		Francis E. Pollard Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   1009 1010 1011 1012 1013  1014  1015 1016 1017 1018 1019   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design