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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40): 'The other day at the Athenaeum I took up one of the volumes of the "Documens pour servir a l'Histoire de France,...George Grote Victor CousinDocumens pour servir a l'Histoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'In all seriousness he [Victor Gollancz] could flaunt a prophetic grandeur, or perhaps simply uncontrolled showmanship, which would have been comic in less traumatic cont...Ralph Glasser Victor Gollancz"Let my people go": some practical proposals for d...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Within the next few days I read a new Gollancz pamphlet, "What Buchenwald Really Means". Vera Brittain Victor GollanczWhat Buchenwald Really MeansPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germany.'Vera Brittain Victor Gollanczarticle in the "Left News"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germany.'Vera Brittain Victor GollanczArticle in the "Left News"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett Victor Hugo Print: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson Victor Hugo Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be ...Leslie Stephen Victor Hugo Print: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Victor HugoNore Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)Print: Book
1900-1945'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise...Patrick McGill Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'.George Eliot [pseud] Victor HugoRuy BlasPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'George Eliot Victor HugoL'Homme Qui RitPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...Edwin Muir Victor HugoNotre Dame de ParisPrint: Book
1900-1945'but I was reading "Les Miserables", and consoled myself with the thought that I was too capable of loving noble things.'Edwin Muir Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Wilson introduced us to another author - Victor Hugo... in 1925, "Les Miserables" gripped us even more than "Pickwick". Mr Wilson must have abridged it ruthlessly, bu...Walter Wilson Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my chil...Mary Russell Mitford Victor HugoplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my chil...Mary Russell Mitford Victor HugoNotre-Dame de ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: ''Have you observed what I have observed [...] that Charles Dickens has meditated deeply & not without a...Elizabeth Barrett Victor HugoLes derniers jours d'un condamnePrint: Book


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