Chevy Chase Historical Society www.chevychasehistory.org List of Chevy Chase Reading Class Texts and Members by Year or "Season" Note: The year or "season" began in the fall, usually October or November, and continued through spring, usually April or May. Starting in the second season (1900-1901), the group generally met once a week, excluding holidays. Information about their reading lists is found in two kinds of documents in the CCHS Archive: First, "The Outline History of the Chevy Chase Reading Class," a bound journal covering the years 1899-1900 to 1924-1925 second, nine small booklets, each covering a season from 1919-20 to 1930-31. The Reading Class member assigned to Year Author(s) Title a text -- or all members of the Reading Class that year. Recorded from Transcript of the "Outline History of the Chevy Chase Reading Class" Mesdames Verrill, Robertson, Bowen and Richards -- and 1899-1900 Taine, Stopford Brookes Books on English literature Mrs. Cousar. Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. 1900-1901 Chaucer, Spenser, Bacon, Swift, Pope, Johnson Reviewed life and works Richars, Misses Mary and Helen Childs, Mrs. Tucker, and Mrs. Weaver. Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Scott, Lamb, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Macaulay, Moore, Richards, Miss M. Childs, Miss H. Childs, Mrs. 1901-1902 Shelley, Keats, Byron Tucker, Mrs. Mower, Mrs. Claude, Mrs. Swartzell, Mrs. Oliphant, and Mrs. Lincoln. Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Thackeray, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Richards, Miss M. Childs, Miss H. Childs, Mrs. 1902-1903 George Eliot, Carlyle, Ruskin, Mathew Arnold Tucker, Mrs. Claude, Mrs. Swartzell, Mrs. Oliphant, and Mrs. Lincoln. Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Miss M. Childs, Miss H. Childs, Mrs. Irving, Bryant, Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, 1903-1904 Tucker, Mrs. Claude, Mrs. Swartzell, Mrs. Oliphant, Holmes, Thoreau, Lowell Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Whitney, and Mrs. Hodges. List of Chevy Chase Reading Class Texts by Season UPDATED 8-22-2016.xlsx 1 Chevy Chase Historical Society www.chevychasehistory.org Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Miss M. Childs, Miss H. Childs, Mrs. Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, 1904-1905 Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Ben Johnson Tucker, Mrs. Claude, Mrs. Swartzell, Mrs. Lincoln, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Whitney, Mrs. Howard, and Mrs. Hodges. Henrys IV and V, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of 1905-1906 William Shakespeare the Shrew, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night, Othello, Cymbeline, Winter's Tale 1906-1907 Homer Richards, Hodges, Claude 1906-1907 Dante Robertson, Verrill, Bowen 1906-1907 Milton H. Childs, Swartzell, Bowen 1906-1907 Cervantes Stevens, Howard, Tucker Les Précieuses Ridicules, Hotel de Rambouillet, Tartuffe, Moliere: Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Davis; Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Femmes Savantes, Le Médecin malgré Goethe: Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Swartzell Mrs. 1907-1908 Moliere, Racine, Goethe, Schiller lui, Le Misanthrope, Malade Imaginaire; poems by Goethe and Stevens; Schiller: Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Faust; Schiller's William Tell, Wallenstein, poems. Racine's Esther, Bowen Andromagne, Athalie. Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Glennan, Mrs. 1908-1909 Tennyson Idylls of the King, Coming of Arthur, Lady of Shallott, Holy Grail Swartzell, Mrs. Tucker The Prelude and early poems. Letters, Intimations of Immortality, Miss (Helen) Childs, Mrs. Bowen, Miss (Fanny) 1908-1909 Wordsworth Extracts from Excursion Childs, Mrs. Robertson The Barrett Letters, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Abt Vogler, Assolanto, In a Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. 1908-1909 Browning Balconey, Pied Piper, Cleon, In a Gondola, Herve Riel, short Wedderburn poems, Ring and the Book. 1909-1910 Meredith Diana of the Crossways Mrs. Richards 1909-1910 Shaw Essays, Chesterton on Shaw Mrs. Davis 1909-1910 Stevenson Essays and Poems, Will 'o the Mill Mrs. Hodges Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, First Act of Peer Gynt, Summary of 1909-1910 Ibsen Mesdames Stevens and Albert Master Builder 1909-1910 Tolstoi Anna Karenina Mrs. Wedderburn Blessed Damozel, Kings Tragedy, Sister Helen, Jennie, Rose 1909-1910 Rossetti Miss H. Childs, Mrs. Ridgway Marie List of Chevy Chase Reading Class Texts by Season UPDATED 8-22-2016.xlsx 2 Chevy Chase Historical Society www.chevychasehistory.org 1909-1910 Kipling Light that Failed, Ballads, William the Conqueror Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen 1909-1910 Materlink Monna Vanna, portions of Blue Bird, Essay on Dog Mrs. Tucker Historical sketch, reading with explanatory text of Hymns to the Sun God, Legend of Etana, Epic of Gilgamesh, including descent Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Paschal, Mrs. Parker, Mrs. 1910-1911 Wisdom of the East: Babylon and Assyria of Ishtar into Arallu. Story of Creation, Legend of the Worm, Ridgway Episode of the Flood. Extracts from Code of Hammurabi Historical sketch. The manners, customs and religion of ancient Egypt. Readings from Book of the Dead. Origin and use of the Scarab. Art, Architecture, tombs, and embalming. Rosetta stone. 1910-1911 Wisdom of the East: Persia and Buddhism Mrs. Robertson Literary records and literary periods. Precepts of Ptah Hotep. Epic of Pentaur. Lyrics. Epic of the Two Brothers. Setra and the Magic Book. Historical sketch. Script and language. Readings from the 1910-1911 Wisdom of the East: China Mrs. Richards Confucian classics and Meucins [spelling?]. Remarks on Japanese literature. Gengi Mongatari. Two medieval plays: Abstraction and Ribs and Skin. Tanka (verses) ancient and 1911-1912 Wisdom of the East, continued: Japan modern; ghost stories; the legend of Ito Norisuki. Romance of the Mrs. Ridgway Milky Way. Tanabata and Kikoboshi. Readings from Lafcadio Hearn's translations. 1911-1912 Wisdom of the East, continued: India India Mrs. Richards 1911-1912 Trollope Biography of Trollope, Barchester Towers Mrs. Stevens Life of Mohammed and extracts from Koran. The Moors in Spain, 1911-1912 Mohammed and the Koran Stanley Lane Poole. Irving’s Alhambra. Later Indian drama. The Mrs. Wedderburn [Little] Clay Cart and Shakuntala, both by Kalidasa. Sketch of Persian literature. The Sufis or Mystics. The Shanamah of Firdausi; Khosru and Shireen of Nizami. Rubaiyat of Omar 1911-1912 Persian Literature Khayam. Rose and Fruit Garden of Rumi and Saadi. Salaman and Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Hodges Absol of Jami. Le Gallienee’s translations of Hafiz. Portions of Lall Rookh. 1911-1912 Huxley Later omitted, and extra days were given to Mrs. Richards Mrs. Paschal List of Chevy Chase Reading Class Texts by Season UPDATED 8-22-2016.xlsx 3 Chevy Chase Historical Society www.chevychasehistory.org 1911-1912 Moore Mrs. Griffin 1911-1912 Arabian Nights Stories from Arabian Nights. Mrs. Parker 1911-1912 Addison Lives of Addison and Steele, and Readings from Spectator. Mrs. Bowen 1912-1913 Shakespeare John, with sketch from William the Normon Mrs. Robertson 1912-1913 Shakespeare Richard II Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Stone 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry IV, Part I and 2. Mrs. Stevens 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry V Mrs. Bowen 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry VI Part 1 Mrs. Richards 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry VI Part 2 Mrs. Pruden 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry VI Part 3 Mrs. Stone 1912-1913 Shakespeare Richard III Mrs. Ridgway 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry VIII Mrs. Verrill for Mrs. Wedderburn 1913-1914 Galsworthy Justice Mrs. Ridgway 1913-1914 Peabody The Piper Mrs. Lane 1913-1914 Phillips Francesca and Paola Mrs. Richards 1913-1914 Synge Playboy of the Western World Mrs. Robertson 1913-1914 Hauptman Hannele Mrs. Bowen 1913-1914 Phillips Herod Mrs. Richards 1913-1914 Hauptman The Weavers Mrs. Stone 1913-1914 Shaw Man and Superman Mrs. Stevens 1913-1914 Suderman Magda Mrs. Hodges 1913-1914 Ibsen Ghosts Mrs. Adkins 1913-1914 Ibsen Pillars of Society Mrs. Dawson Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Nobel Prize Winnters: Mistral, Carducci, Prudhomme, Heyse, Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, , Mrs. Wedderburn, Mrs. 1914-1915 Bjornson, Sienkiewrez, Kipling, Echegaray, Lagerly, Tagore. Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Adkins List of Chevy Chase Reading Class Texts by Season UPDATED 8-22-2016.xlsx 4 Chevy Chase Historical Society www.chevychasehistory.org Walt Whitman and Contemporary Writers: Walt Whitman, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Samuel Crothers, John Masefield, Israel Zangwill, Algernon Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Wedderburn, Mrs. 1915-1916 Swinburne, Arthur W. Pinero, Alfred Noyes, Seamus Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Macmanus, William Watson Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Merrill, and Mrs. Ashley. Nature Writers: John Burroughs, Ernest Thompson Setow, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Dallas Lore Sharp, Gene Stratton Porter, George Douglas Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, 1916-1917 Roberts, Neltje Blancham, Mable Osgood Wright, Jean Henri Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Merrill, Cassimer Fabre Mrs. Ashley, and Mrs. Garland. Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Russian Literature: Madame Olga Novikoff, Peter Kroptkin, Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, M. Trnbetzkoi, N.V. Gogol, L.N. Tolstoi, L. Andreyev, V. 1917-1918 Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Merrill, Soloviev, A.P. Checkov, T.M. Dostoievski, L.N. Polapenko, Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. Garland, Mrs. Persons, and Mrs. M. Gorky, T. Sologob, A. Kuprin, P.N. Milinkoff Potbury. Mrs.