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Mary Ursula Bethell

The following books formerly belonging to Ursula Bethell, were given to the University of Canterbury Library by Mrs Kathleen Davies.

  • ADAMS, Samuel The complete servant, being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants ... by Samuel and Sarah Adams. London, Knight and Lacey, 1825).
  • BACON, Francis, Viscount St Lord Bacon’s essays. (London, John Sharpe 1819). Albans
  • BROWNING, Robert Pocket volume of selections from the poetical works of Robert Browning. (London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1890).
  • BURNS, Robert The poems (London, Dent, 1898)*
  • CARROLL, Lewis Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there. (London, Macmillan, 1898).
  • CATHOLIC CHURCH. Liturgy The Small Missal. (London, Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1934). And Ritual. Missal
  • COBBETT, Willaim Cottage economy … (London, William Cobbett, 1831).*
  • COWPER, William Poems. (London, J. Johnson, 1805).
  • DEFOE, Daniel A journal of the plague year. (London, Thomas Tegg and Son, 1835). English popular ballads (Halifax, Milner and Sowerby, 1860).
  • EWING, Juliana Horatia The story of a short life. (London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)
  • FULLER, Thomas Abel redevivus, or, the dead yet speaking. (London, Printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford, 1651).
  • HENNELL, T. Change in the farm. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1934).*
  • HERBERT, George The remains of that sweet singer of the temple George Herbert. (London, Pickering, 1848).
  • HOMERUS The Odysseys of Homer; translated according to the Greek by George Chapman. (London, J. M. Dent, 1897).
  • JACOBUS de Varaigne The Golden Legend of Lives of the Saints as Englished by William Caxton. (London, J. M. Dent, 1900).
  • JOHNSON, Samuel The lives of the most eminent poets with critical observations on their works. (London, Printed by J. Nichols and Son, 1806).
  • JOHNSON, Samuel Rasselas, a tale. (London, Suttaby, Evance and Fox, and Crosby and Co., 1815).
  • LA FONTAINE, Jean de Fables de La Fontaine; suivies d’Adonis, poēme. (Paris, Didot, 1799).
  • MILTON, John The complete poetical works of John Milton. (London, Henry Frowde, 1900).*
  • OXFORD book of English Verse 1250-1900. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1901).*
  • PALGRAVE, Francis Turner The Golden Treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language. (London, Macmillan, 1896).
  • PASCAL, Blaise Pensēes de Blaise Pascal. (Paris, Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1812).
  • Relation of a short story of 26 countries observed in seven weeks journey begun on August 11, 1634 by a captain, a lieutenant, and an ancient all three of the military company of Norwich. (London, F.E. Robinson, 1904).
  • RUSKIN, John The seven lamps of Architecture, (London, George Allen, 1891).*
  • STERME, Lawrence A sentimental journey through France and Italy: to which are added the letters of Eliza. (Paris. Didot, 1800).
  • STURT, George The Wheelwright’s Shop. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1923).
  • SWIFT, Jonathan Gulliver’s travels into several remote nations of the world (London, Scott and Webster, 1839).
  • THOMAS ā KEMPIS The Imitation of Christ, called also the Ecclesiastical Music. (London, Methuen, 1898).
  • THOMSON, James The seasons by James Thomson with his life and notes embellished with fourteen plates. (London, John Stockdale, 1794).
  • VINCENT, Thomas An explicatory catechism (London, Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1690).
  • WALTON, Izaak The lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr Robert Sanderson. (London, John Major 1825).

NOTE:

* No longer held at the University of Canterbury. [List copied from a UC Library document, c.1980 ]

Related items

Bethell / Manuel de la jeune femme

Kathleen Davis / Pensees

Bethell / Pensees

To view Bethell material held in the University of Canterbury Library Art and Archives collections please click on this link. COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS : Ursula Bethell collection

Further Resurces

Valerie Laura. 'Bethell, Mary Ursula', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4b29/bethell-mary-ursula (accessed 30 March 2022)

New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre. 'Ursula Bethell', https://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/bethell/index.asp (accessed 30 March 2022)