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]   546 547 548 549 550  551  552 553 554 555 556   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Another writer D.J. rated highly was Thomas Hardy, whose novel "Jude the Obscure" he used to read and re-read with what Taylor described as 'morbid satisfaction'.'David John Thomas Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never retu...George Gissing Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1900-1945'The air dark and yellow with sand. Reason preserved by the finding of "Jude the Obscure", which I drank in, on and off, throughout the day. But I fear I should have put ...Ronald Storrs Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1900-1945'One sat or stood waiting, humbly, through hours which scarcely melted, for something to happen, something which would bring this eternity to a conclusion: but, one...Guy Patterson Chapman Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I tried to read Judith Paris, then Ivanhoe. A note on ...Virginia Woolf Hugh WalpoleJudith ParisPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"... [the young Cicely Hamilton] found a dusty copy of Eugene Sue's Juif Errant in a cupboard and with the aid of a dictionary, read it from cover to cover. The fact tha...Cicely Hammill Eugene SueJuif ErrantPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Georges DeppingJuifs au Moyen AgePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In Aunt-Judy 1885'Sarah Good Horatia Katharine Frances GattyJuliana Horatia Ewing and Her BooksPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am struck to a degree with the force and accuracy of hs des...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'I return the first two volumes of Julia with many thanks - It seems to me, that the most proper way of testifying my gratitude to the amiable Jean Jacques for the pleasu...Jane Bailie Welsh Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!'Jane Bailie Welsh Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and Julie'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Julie - S reads Homer'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Julie'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6-8 November 1793: 'Were men what they ought to be — Rousseau would be canonized for a greater saint than any in the calendar...Robert Southey Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped into some of my books. Vol.I Nouvelle Heloise.'Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauJulie: ou Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.'Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauJulie: ou Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics to indicate PB Shelley's hand] 'In the evening I walk alone a long way by the lake. Read Julie all day [end italics]'Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   546 547 548 549 550  551  552 553 554 555 556   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design