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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so, to fifnish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "Other H...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesEmbarrassmentsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and that sentence begins admirably, although its feet are o...Robert Louis Stevenson Francis QuarlesEmblemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four e...John Ruskin Andrea AlciatiEmblemsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster Lascelles AbercrombieEmblems of LovePrint: Book
1700-1799'the book that prompted [Mary Wollstonecraft's] fullest comment was Rousseau's "Emile". It was bound to appeal to her; it was a treatise on education, a metaphysical essa...Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1700-1799'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a reason, that a genius will educate itself - however ...Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
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1800-1849		'...he proclaimed himself a disciple of Rousseau. But he can hardly have followed the teaching of "Emile" very closely, since...'Jeans-Jaques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'Whether or not man has the stain of original sin I leave to theologians & metaphysicians. That education tends to ...Robert Southey Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated writings with great pleasure, and even edification; ha...James Boswell Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 24 September 1810: 'I am in the middle of [Rousseau's] "Emile." I think parts of it excellent, and t...Harriet Countess Granville Jean Jacques RousseauEmile (vol. 1)Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read the letters of Emile'.Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauEmile, ou l'EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'.Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauEmile, ou l'EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile'Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauEmile, ou l'EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Emile'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauEmile, ou l'EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauEmile, ou l'EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Friday September 9th. [.....Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Saturday Sept. 10th. [......Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret ver...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.'Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book


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