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]   697 698 699 700 701  702  703 704 705 706 707   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, "Adam Bede", and other of Geo...Thomas Burt John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman's soul, - in liking Modern Painters, and the idea o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Margaret Emily Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave great delight to my daughter, when they arrived yeste...Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously attacked the literary style of Modern Painters with whi...Alfred Rawlings John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously attacked the literary style of Modern Painters with whi...XII Book ClubJohn RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 31 July 1848:

'I have lately been reading "Modern Painters," and have derived from the work much genuine p...		Charlotte Brontë John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Gaskell to Tottie Fox, August 1850:

'I wish, my dear, you were here. It would be a charming beguiling of my sofa imprisonment. I am very happy neve...		Elizabeth Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Modern Painters.'Ellen Heaton John RuskinModern Painters I and IIPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volume of Modern Painters, published Jan 15, 1856] from ...Ellen Heaton John RuskinModern Painters IIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the tower at Calais, with Ruskin's "delightful" description....Ellen Heaton John RuskinModern Painters IVPrint: Book
1850-1899'Then to the Scuola of St Rocco where, with the help of the good old Ruskin, I got near to Tintoret[to].' Gertrude Bell John RuskinModern Painters, Vol. 2Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in very fair couplets ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron anonModern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some...Print: Book
1900-1945'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appreciation — and for the brochure on the religious ele...Joseph Conrad Roman DyboskiModern Polish Literature: a course of lectures del...Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf Bonamy DobreeModern Prose StylePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding VariousModern Short StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'My diary for October 5th, 1932, recorded the impression made upon me by the writer whose "Modern Utopia" had been a beacon light of my schooldays:'Vera Brittain Herbert George WellsModern UtopiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were...Mary Russell Mitford Henri BalzacModeste MignonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845: 'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter. I read my French abomination at breakfast & dinner...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacModeste MignonPrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   697 698 699 700 701  702  703 704 705 706 707   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design