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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	'It was only a month before or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had read to him aloud from beginning to end, and to his perfect satisfaction, as he lay on the be...	Joseph Conrad	Victor Hugo	Les Travailleurs de la Mer	Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, Conrad's father's translation into Polish.
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 March 1845: 'I have the first volume of Victor Hugo's "Odes et Ballades," but they are slavishly loyal to those vile old ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Victor Hugo	Odes et Ballades (volume 1)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	#Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Victor Hugo	various romances	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...	Alfred Tennyson	Victor Hugo		Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset.'	Alfred Tennyson	Victor Hugo		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'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	Victor Hugo	[letter]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'At present I am deep in Les Misérables, which is wonderful.'	Constance Wilde	Victor Hugo	Les Misérables	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved [...] 4. The Subje...	Thomas C. Elliott	Victor Hugo	Booz endormi, from La légende des siècles	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved [...] 4. The Subje...	Thomas C. Elliott	Victor Hugo	L’Expiation (section on Waterloo)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved [...] 4. The Subje...	E. Dorothy Brain	Victor Hugo	Les Misérables	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved [...] 4. The Subje...	Reginald H. Robson	Victor Hugo	Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved [...] 4. The Subje...	H. B. Lawson	Victor Hugo	Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"I think it was Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables that decided me to do what I could to alleviate the distress and suffering of the poor. That story gives you such a viv...	David Lloyd George	Victor Hugo	Les Miserables	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...	John Buchan	Victor Hugo		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Fog in the early morning, sun came out after lunch. Quite chilly. Read Arabic and "Les Misérables".'	Gertrude Bell	Victor Hugo	Les Misérables	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Finished the "Misérables" and began "Simon Dale". [...].The little Morel boy and I made paper boats and sailed them in the bath this afternoon. We passed the Northern po...	Gertrude Bell	Victor Hugo	Les Misérables	Print: Book
	1900-1945	‘I am glad you sent that cutting from Wells’ Book. I hope you understood it. I did not. Not a word of it can I make sense of. I would rather we did not read this Book...	Wilfred Owen	Victor Hugo	l'Homme qui rit	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don’t remember any child’s book. I don’t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo’s "Travailleurs...	Joseph Conrad	Victor Hugo	Les Travailleurs de la mer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 15 October 1834: 'Have they sent you among your books "Victor Jaquemont's Letters?" they are perfectly original [...] I never kne...	Mary Berry	Victor Jaquemont	Letters describing a journey in India	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sat and read Antony, by Lord Lytton.'	Vere Hodgson	Victor Lytton	Antony: A Record of Youth	Print: Book

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