English Reading in a Dutch Library for Women (1894-1900)
I. Bookpurchase Damesleesmuseum 1894-1900
Total 1282 books
Dutch:455
Enlish: 350
French: 206
German: 139
Italian: 12
Brochures (mainly Dutch): 120
Translated English literature in the Dutch collection
1896
4 titles out of 133 (3 by women writers)
1900
28 titles out of 322 (10 by women writers)
English literature by women writers
1896
64 out of 196
1900
57 out of 154
Cf. the list in WomenWriters (information not yet entered completely).
II. Translated from the English (male and female)
| catalogue 1896 | gender author | |
| Dickens, Ch. | Martin Chuzzlewit | m |
| Keary, A. | Een kasteel in Ierland | v |
| Ouida | Poussette | v |
| Sewell, Anna | Edelzwart | v |
| catalogue 1900 | ||
| Alexander, Mrs. | Een strijd met het lot | v |
| Barnett, Edith A. | Hoe bezorgen wij onze meisjes een gelukkige toekomst. | v |
| Bellamy, Edward | Gelijkheid voor allen | m |
| Braddon, M.E. | Die man zijt gij | v |
| Clodd, Edward | De geschiedenis van de oorspronkelijke mensch | m |
| Henry, George | Vooruitgang en armoede | m |
| Grant, Allen | De vrouw die de moed had | m (new woman novellist) |
| De hertogin van Powsyland | ||
| Hickson, Sydney | Het Leven der Zeeën | m |
| Kidd, Benjamin | Sociale Evolutie | m |
| Kingsford, Anna | De ware voeding (…) | v |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Het licht dat verdween | m |
| Drie soldaten | ||
| Uit de bergen | ||
| Maclaren, Jan | Harten van goud | m (?) |
| Zielenadel | ||
| Martineau, Harriet | In de Fjords | v |
| Mulock, Miss | Een kloeke vrouw | v |
| Oliphant, Mrs. | De rijke erfgename | v |
| Putman, Ruth | Willem de Zwijger (…) | v |
| Stanton Coit, Sr. | Buurtvereenigingen (…) | m |
| Stuart Mill, John | De slavernij der vrouw | m |
| Wescott, E.N. | David Harum | m |
| Wilde, Oscar | Salomé | m |
| Fantasieën | ||
| Shakespeare, W. | Verzameld werk | m |
| Brochures | ||
| Barnett, Mrs. Samuel A. | Onze woning | v |
| Besant, Annie | Theosophie en materialisme | v |
| III. English literature in DLM | |||
| Catalogue 1896 English | |||
| Alcott, Louisa | Something to do | ||
| Work | |||
| Little women | |||
| Little women wedded | |||
| Austen, Jane | Pride and prejudice | ||
| Bell, Currer | Shirley (= pseud. van Charlotte Brontë) | ||
| Bentham, Mrs. Edwards | The passing of the ways | ||
| Braddon, Miss | The day will come | ||
| Broughton, Rhoda | Doctor Cupid | ||
| Cometh up as a flower | |||
| Burnett Hogdson, Mrs. | Throngh one administration | ||
| Corelli, Marie | Thelma | ||
| Crawford, Marion | Greifenstein | ||
| Deland, Marg. | John Ward, preacher | ||
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch | ||
| Felix Holt | |||
| Impressions by Theophrastus Such. | |||
| The lifted veil | |||
| The mill on the floss | |||
| Falconer, Lanoe (pseud. van Mary Elisabeth Hawker) | Mademoiselle Ixe | ||
| The Hôtel d’Angleterre and other stories | |||
| Fern, Fanny | Fern Leaves | ||
| Fullerton, Georina | Lady Bird | ||
| Giberne, Agnes | The curate’s home | ||
| Grand, Sarah | The heavenly twins | ||
| Harradan, Beatrice | Ships that pass in the night | ||
| Hungerford, Miss | A conquering heroine | ||
| Kavanagh, Julia | Nathalie | ||
| Keeling, E. d’Esterre | In thoughtland and in dreamland | ||
| Lyall, Edna | In the golden days (2x) | ||
| We two | |||
| Donovan (2x) | |||
| A Knight-Errant | |||
| Malet, Lucas (pseud. van Mary St Leger Kingsley) | The wages of sin | ||
| Marryat, Florence | The fair haired Alda | ||
| Marshall, Emma | Under Salisbury spire | ||
| Penthurst castle | |||
| Monsdale, Marg. | Sister Dora | ||
| Montgomery, Florence | Misunderstood | ||
| Thwarted | |||
| Mulock, Miss | A woman’s thoughts about women | ||
| Ouida | Signa | ||
| Idalia | |||
| Pipistrelo | |||
| A house party | |||
| Princess Napraxine | |||
| Two little wooden shoes | |||
| Poynter, Frances E. | Among the hills | ||
| Schreiner, Olive | The story of an African farm | ||
| (Ralph Iron) Dreams | |||
| Stowe, Mrs. Beecher | Uncle Tom’s cabin | ||
| Thomas, Annie (Mrs. Pender Cudlip) | A passion in tatters | ||
| Ward, Mrs. Humphrey | Robert Elsmere | ||
| Marcella | |||
| The history of David Grieve | |||
| Miss Bretherton | |||
| Wood, Mrs. Henry | Lord Oakborn’s daughter | ||
| The master of Greylands | |||
| Elster’s folly | |||
| Yonge, Miss | The trial | ||
| The chaplet of pearls | |||
| The pillars of the house | |||
| The daisy chain | |||
| Wyndham, Emyla, author of The heiress of Haughton | Evelyn Marston |
| English literature catalogue 1900 | ||
| Barrett Browning, Elisabeth | Aurora Leigh | |
| Bateson, M., | Professional women upon their professions | |
| Blissett, Nellie K. | The Concert-director | |
| Brontë, Emily | Wuthering Heights | |
| Brontë, Anne | Agnes Grey | |
| Broughton, Rhoda | Not wisely, but too well | |
| Burke, Mrs. W.A. | The structure of life | |
| Caird, Mona | The morality of marriage and other essays of the status and destiny of women | |
| The daughters of Danaus | ||
| Corelli, Marie | The Sorrows of Satan (..) | |
| Ziska, the problem of wicked soul | ||
| Dickens, Mamie | My father, as I recall him | |
| Edwards, Amelia B. | Unhodden peaks and unfrequented valleys (..) | |
| Egerton, George (New Woman) | Discords | |
| Fantasia’s | ||
| Symphonies | ||
| The Wheel of God | ||
| Keynotes | ||
| Elliot, George | The legend of Jubal and other persons | |
| Gerard, Dorothea | A spotless reputation | |
| Grand, Sarah | The Beth book (…) | |
| Harraden, Beatrice | Hilda Strafford and the Remittanceman (…) | |
| Hodgson Burnett, Francis | A lady of quality (…) | |
| Holdsworth, Annie E. | Joanna Trail, spinster | |
| The years, that the locust hath eaten | ||
| Spindles and oars | ||
| The Gods arrive | ||
| Lyall, Edna | Derrick Vaughan, novellist | |
| Wayfaring men | ||
| Hope the Hermit | ||
| Mary E. Mann | Moonlight | |
| Marryat, Florence | Petronel | |
| The confessions of Gerald Estcourt | ||
| The strange transfiguration of Hannah Stubb | ||
| Montgomery, Florence | Thrown together | |
| The blue veil | ||
| Oliphant, Mrs. | The greatest heiress in England | |
| Kinsteen, the story of an English family (…) | ||
| Ouida | A Leaf in the storm (…) | |
| Cecil Castlemain’s gage | ||
| Ruffino | ||
| Toxin and other papers | ||
| The Massareness | ||
| Paston, George | A fair deceiver | |
| Perkins Stetson, Charlotte, | Women and Economics (…) | |
| Rauschenbusch-Clough, Emma | A study of Mary Wollstonecraft (…) | |
| Schreiner, Olive | Trooper Peter Halkett of Mashonaland | |
| An English-South-African view of the situation (…) | ||
| Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie | Red Rowans | |
| On the face of the waters | ||
| Swiney, Frances | The awakening of women or Woman’s part in evolution | |
| Ward, Mrs. Humphrey | Sir George Tressady | |
| The story of Bessie Costrell | ||
| Helbeck of Bannisdale | ||
| Wilkins, Mary | Madelon | |
| Wood, Mrs. Henry | Trevlyn Hold (…) |
IV. English periodicals 1894-1900
Shafts
Studio
Review of Reviews
The Artist
The House
Weekly Times
Labour Prophet
The Speaker
English Women’s Review of Industrial and Social Questions
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