√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired bo... Sarah Harriet Burney Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne Letters of Madame de Sevigne Print : Book1800-1849 'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters...' Sarah Harriet Burney Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne Letters of Madame de Sevigne Print : Book1800-1849 'I spent the whole afternoon reading some of Mde. de Sevigne's letters' Harriet Wynne Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne [Letters] Print : Book1800-1849 'I read Mde. de Sevigne until I was quite tired'. Harriet Wynne Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne [Letters] Print : Book1800-1849 'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr Thomas Grenville says he has made seven vigorous at... Sydney Smith Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne [Letters] Print : Book1800-1849 'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament' Mary Shelley Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne Lettres Print : Book1800-1849 'of all the generations who have praised Madame de Sevigne, and commended her writings, I am certain no one has ever entered more completely into the sentiment of her del... Charlotte Bury Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Letters Print : Book1800-1849 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfi... Mr Sharpe Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Letters Print : Book1850-1899 '(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be well-educated young lady who knew nothing about Mad... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne [Letters] Print : Book1800-1849 'The former [apparently a letter from Louisa Clinton, praising LS -or someone else? - extravagantly] discomposed me, trenching upon all the old forbidden ground. Even Mad... Louisa, Lady Stuart Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne [Letters] Print : Book1700-1799 'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.' Susanna Arabella Thrale Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Letters Print : Book1900-1945 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing.
Mrs C. Elliott read in... C. Elliott Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne [letter] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informing or critical; also de Vog???s 'Le Roman russe'. Arnold Bennett Marie Eugene Melchior de Vogue Le Roman russe Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. re... Mary Shelley Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet Vie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivi... Print : Book1800-1849 'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - ... Mary Shelley Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet Vie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivi... Print : Book1700-1799 "[Thomas] Poole read the Appeal in March 1796; writing to Henrietta Warwick on 2 April, he revealed that 'I have lately perused with much delight La Citoyenne Roland.'" Thomas Poole Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Ro... Print : Book1700-1799 " ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and some other french things - very entertaining.'" Dorothy Wordsworth Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Ro... Print : Book1800-1849 'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired bo... Sarah Harriet Burney Marie, marquise de Sevigne [letters to her daughter - exact title uncertain] Print : Book1800-1849 Let us talk of Eugenie and Mathilde. It saddened but did not make me cry. I foresaw it would end like a Turk, nay I am not sure I did not peep, for I cannot bear to be gr... Sarah Harriet Burney Marie-Emilie, Comtesse de Flahaut Adelaide Eugenie et Mathilde Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) Print : Book
