√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D... Arthur Symons William Makepeace Thackeray Henry Esmond Print : Book1900-1945 'Monday, 15th February,
Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnificent. I would like to give a paper on this aspect of ... Gerald Moore William Makepeace Thackeray Barry Lindon Print : Book1900-1945 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year:
? Thread o? Scarlet?... Gerald Moore William Makepeace Thackeray The Four Georges Print : Book1900-1945 'Tuesday, 13th April,
Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehearsal fell through however owing to the Settlement b... Gerald Moore William Makepeace Thackeray English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century Print : Book1900-1945 'Friday 27th August
I bought ?Esmond? and ?Westward Ho!? today and started to read the former.
Why is Thackeray suffering from a decline? He is the best of them, ea... Gerald Moore William Makepeace Thackeray Esmond Print : Book1900-1945 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison libra... Stuart Wood [pseud?] William Makepeace Thackeray [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'I have had all things considered and thanks principally to Philip, a very passable Christmas day [...] then went upstairs and read Phillip till lunchtime (you see I adhe... Robert Louis Stevenson William Makepeace Thackeray The Adventures of Philip Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'they, the Scotts, where [sic] in a state of delight about Esmond, which Thackeray had given them' the Scotts William Makepeace Thackeray Henry Esmond Print : Book1900-1945 27 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional picturesqueness.' Desmond MacCarthy William Makepeace Thackeray Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Print : Unknown1850-1899 'I stayed up very late to-night reading Thackeray's scraps contributed in the olden days to Punch & Frazer's Magazine. Some of them interested me very much though I was r... John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace Thackeray [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Read some of Thackeray to Mrs Castieau & the youngsters this evening. The account of Master Augustus's visit to the pantomime delighted Harry very much & he could'ent he... John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace Thackeray [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels... Virginia Woolf William Makepeace Thackeray unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for who... Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia William Makepeace Thackeray Virginians, The Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little co... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Makepeace Thackeray Lovel the Widower Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'The History of Pendennis (2 vols, 1849-50) by William Makepeace Thackeray was published by Bradbury and Evans in twenty-four numbers (twenty-three parts) from November 1... Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Pendennis Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?3 December, 1850: 'I send the first volume of Pendennis. We have one more which Robert is finishing'. Robert Browning William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Pendennis Print : Book1850-1899 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i... Margaret De Quincey William Makepeace Thackeray unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them... Lucy Housman William Makepeace Thackeray [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw... Alfred and Emily Tennyson William Makepeace Thackeray The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century Print : Book1850-1899 'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false... Alfred Tennyson William Makepeace Thackeray Henry Esmond Print : Book
