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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Margot Asquith in footnote to letter to her from Henry James of 9 April 1915, in praise of her diary, in Margot Asquith: An Autobiography (1922), 70-73: 'Out of all my di...Margot Asquith Margot AsquithDiariesManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'I've just been reading Mrs Asquith's book and I confess it leaves me bewildered. Unless my judgement has gone entirely astray, it is completely détraqué. She records con...Gertrude Bell Margot AsquithAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-194523 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & Turgenev.'Virginia Woolf Margot OxfordMore MemoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.'Mary Godwin Margrave de BareithM?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse...Print: Book
1800-1849'Write and read the memoirs of the princess of Bareith'Mary Godwin Margrave de BariethM?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the Memoirs aloud'Mary Godwin Margrave de BariethM?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse...Print: Book
1800-1849'read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft'Mary Godwin Margrave de BariethM?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse...Print: Book
1600-1699'I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I think she has a good deale of witt . . . But the storry ...Dorothy Osborne Marguerite de ValoisMemoires de la Reyne MargueritePrint: Book
1850-1899''I have finished "Yaga" - twice. I shall write nothing to you about it while I am still under its charm.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaYaga: ésquisse de moeurs ruthénesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in Fren...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLa Madone de Busowiska, moeurs houtsoulesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in Fren...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaYaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I threw myself (in a manner of speaking) on "Popes et popadias" with eagerness and high hopes. From the first lines my hopes were realised - and then very quickly surpas...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaPopes et popadias (published in book form as Les F...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am charmed with "Joujou". It is altogether and delightfully shocking. Where the devil did you find it? Pardon the nautical language.' Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaJoujouPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Yesterday evening I escaped from the ship for the pilgrimage to the station. I have my parcel No.4000 and something. Just imagine a work of art called parcel No.4000, e...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading "Le fils Grandsire" with delight. It is charming and characteristic: it is alive. I shall finish the book tomorrow and speak of it in my next letter.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished the book [Le Mariage du fils Grandsire] a while ago; then I went over several passages while waiting the chance to reread it entirely.' [here follows Conrad'...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1850-1899''I reread "Yaga" only the other day. It gave me intense pleasure. I read slowly and mingled my dreams with these pages that I love so well.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaYaga: ésquisse de moeurs ruthènesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, not clear whether this was being read in the book version or that published in the Revue des Deux Monde
1850-1899'I have just reread "Le fils Grandsire", opening the book at random, and continuing at random, I have read every single word. with an odd and entirely sentimental fondnes...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1900-1945'I add a few words above all to talk to you about the book. I've read the novel for the third time, faithfully--from one end to the other. It's very good. It's very good!...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaPour NoemiPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was a joy to have your book ["Hors du Foyer"]. A thousand thanks. I have just finished reading it and, and I am charmed.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaHors du FoyerPrint: Book


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