√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1600-1699 'And there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as "The Maiden Queen" or "The Indian Imperour", of his... Elizabeth Pepys Madame de Scud?ri Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Mathilde et Eugenie' Mary Shelley Madame de Souza Eug?nie et Mathilde, ou les m?moires de la famille... Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Livy - Adele de Senange - S reads Livy' Mary Shelley Madame de Souza Adele de Senage, ou lettres de Lord Sydenham Print : Book1800-1849 'read Corinne' Mary Shelley Madame de Stael Corinne Print : Book1800-1849 'Unwell - read Madme de Stael's vie privee de Necker' Mary Shelley Madame de Stael Memoires sur la vie privee de mon pere, par Madame... Print : Book1800-1849 'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. Deffand' Mary Godwin Madame du Deffand [life included in] Correspondence in?dite de Mme d... Print : Book1800-1849 In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which however I could not sleep ... ) & so Good Morning - ... George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publication without my perusal of many of its pages ... I sho... George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein De L'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have read her books - like most of them, and delight in t... George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ... I cannot be mistaken (except in taste) in a book I ... George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read this book in your garden ... you were absent -- or I co... George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein Corinne Print : Book1600-1699 'I know you will pitty Poore Amestris strangly when you have read her Stoory[.] i'le swear I cryed for her when I read it first though shee were an imaginary person, and ... Dorothy Osborne Madeleine de Scudery Artamene; ou, Le Grand Cyrus Print : BookManuscript : Letter1850-1899 'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day
and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p... Ford Madox Ford Madeleine de Scudéry Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus 1600-1699 'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.' Elizabeth Pepys Madeleine de Scuderi Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus Print : Book1600-1699 'and then home to my wife, who is not well with her cold, and sat and read [a] piece of "Grand Cyrus" in English by her' Samuel Pepys Madeleine de Scuderi Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus Print : Book1800-1849 'Thursday March 11th [...] Read Vie de Mademoiselle de Montpensiers ecrite par elle meme.' Claire Clairmont Mademoiselle de Montpensier Memoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, fille de ... Print : Book1600-1699 [from chapter entitled 'Aphra Behn']
'One thing is certain, pure her mind was not, but tainted to the very core. She loved grossness
for its
own sake, because it w... Aphra Behn Mademoiselle de Scudery Print : Book1850-1899 'Miss Maggie Bell has sent me [a] MS. novel to look over, - she is a nice person, and I know I once wanted to help sorely' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Maggie Bell [MS. novel] Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Why don't you ask Miss (Maggie) Elliott to write you a novel? 6 Grosvenor Crescent - daughter of the Dean of Bristol - author of "Jem" (something) - the Dale Boy, in the... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Maggie Elliott [story with title like 'Jem'] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.' Mary Godwin Magrave de Bareith M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse... Print : Book
