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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book then that [...] bowls 5 to 6.30: then Madame de Sevigne...Virginia Woolf Madame de SevigneunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a little with that mannered & sterile Bussy now. Even t...Virginia Woolf Madame de SevignelettersPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame de Sevigne, the first of which, Forster notes under...Edward Morgan Forster Madame de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Cha...Lady Harriet Cavendish Madame de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 19 November 1803 ('Friday evening'): 'I just this moment found these lines in one of Madame de Sevigne's ...Lady Harriet Cavendish Madame de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 24 November 1803: 'I lament the reason I am going to give you for keeping to one book at a time. I find...Lady Harriet Cavendish Madame de SevigneLetters (vol. 5)Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Corinne and Livy - S reads Livy'Mary Shelley Madame de StaelCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Corinne & Livy - S reads Corinne'Percy Bysshe Shelley Madame de StaelCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'Mary Shelley Madame de StaelCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 19 November 1807: 'After dinner read aloud some of Madame du Deffand's letters.'Mary Berry Madame du DeffandLettersUnknown
1800-1849John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, received three days previously: 'The preface is excellent,...John Playfair Madame du DeffandLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Roscoe' to Mary Berry: 'I may almost be said to have past the last ten or twelve days in your society; for having been confined to the house by indisposition, my chie...Mr Roscoe Madame du DeffandLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849M. G. Lewis to Lady Charlotte Bury, 9 December 1810: 'I have galloped through two volumes of Madame du Deffand's Letters, and with much amusement, though the anecdotes ar...M. G. Lewis Madame du DeffandLetters (2 vols)Print: Book
1800-1849The Rev. Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1840]: 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand.'Rev. Sydney Smith Madame du DeffandLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very...Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Madame du NoyerLetters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at AvignonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Dante - History of 2 Viziers - Sismondi'Mary Shelley Madame Fauques de VaucluseThe Vizirs; or, the Enchanted Labyrinth. An orient...Print: Book
1850-1899'I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her letter in, - I know I can trust you, - and we are just of...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Madame Mohl[review of Mme Lenorment's 'Souvenirs et Correspon...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		Mary Berry, Journal, 23 November 1807: 'In Madame Neckar's ridiculous Remains, published by her husband, are some of the very best rules and advice for the manners and co...Mary Berry Madame NeckarRemainsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they...John Mitchel Madame Pichler[Siege of Vienna]Print: Book
1700-1799'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better than Madame Riccoboni's Tales [...] she lent it to Dr. Johnson. He was...Hester Thrale Madame RiccoboniTalesPrint: Book


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