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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDe l'AllemagnePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of German Literature, but there is a poem in that Language, ...Felicia Hemans Germaine de StaelDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and then quite absurd. Do not mind it much.'Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili...Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelDe l'Allemagne
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Dec. 26th. [...] Read Allemagne by Madame de Stael.' [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 27, 28, 29 December 1820; and 3 and 5 J...Claire Clairmont Germaine de StaelDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849"I too am reading Mme de Staal [sic], and am such a Goth, that I catch myself yawning over it! Probably I am not formed to love "les plaisirs [underlined] dissertant [end...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention i...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-HolsteinDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'"I do not consider at all", observed Madame de C[-], "the author of a book, but only the work itself abstractedly, and I think the work we are now speaking of is one of ...Madame de [C-] Anne Louise Germaine de Stael HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Madame de C[-], who appears to me to be a clever and deep-thinking person, admired the whole of it without reserve, and said, she thought nothing could be more luminous ...Madame de [C-] Anne Louise Germaine de Stael HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I have been reperusing Madame de Stael's De l'Allemagne. I cannot very well express how much I am charmed with that work. As ...Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Sta?l-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'I happened to open Madame de Stael's "Allemagne", and passed the whole night in reading that delightful work over again. The great charm in all her writings is, that the...Charlotte Bury Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the French, found its way into "To the North". In 1932 sh...Elizabeth Bowen Stendhal [pseud.]De l'amourPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ever read Stendhal?s ?Physiologie de l?amour?? If not, do. 1 franc is the price. It is vivacious, epigrammatic, & full of common-sense. I think he must be a great man...Arnold Bennett StendhalDe l'amourPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on the Late Depreciation of Bank Notes" [...] During ...George Grote HemsterhuisDe l'Homme et de ses RapportsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'M. Necker, the late Minister...has written a book entitled "De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses", it pleases me and I want to know the character of the man in domest...Mary Wollstonecraft Jacques NeckerDe l'Importance des opinions ReligeusesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...'Thomas Green MontesquieuDe l?esprit des loixPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginal annotation in pencil in French throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Emile DurkheimDe la division du travail social: ?tude sur l?orga...Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol....Percy Bysshe Shelley Anne Louise Germaine de (Madame de) StaelDe la Litterature consideree dans ses rapports ave...Print: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 16 December 1840: 'I have been reading, and am still reading, B. de St. Hilaire, "De la Logique d'Aristotle.' I have been going through ...George Grote B. de St HilaireDe la logique d'AristotePrint: Book


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