Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

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

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   437 438 439 440 441  442  443 444 445 446 447   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began to read French stories, those to which I returned mos...Enid Starkie French fictionPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.' Gabriel Harvey unknownFrench grammarsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on studies at Miss Crooke's boarding school, Newport, Isle of Wight: 'When my regular lessons for the day were over, I used to sit until bed-tim...Elizabeth Sewell unknownFrench idiomsUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague, 22 April 1824: 'Here is again the most delicious spring weather. I wish you could see...Granville Leveson Gower French newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, (1-10 January 1831): 'We have the two latest French papers here. Nothing can, I think, be more promising than...Lord and Lady Granville French newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘This morning that extraordinarily unequal collection "The Golden Treasury" came out of its hiding place, and served to astonish me once more with its lasting wonders...Ivor Bertie Gurney French newspapers: (Le Telegramme; Le Journal; Le ...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899Ruskin on two American girls on train between Venice and Verona: "'...they had French novels, lemons, and lumps of sugar to beguile their state with; the novels hanging t...Female American travelling-companions French novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'...Mother reads all the new French novels and Rudyard Kipling ... and though she says they are so horrible she can hardly get through them, she will go on reading th...Edith Lytton French novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lang’s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off.'Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew LangFrench Peasant Songs.Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817): 'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I have perused with the greatest interest. A more superst...Maria Graham French playUnknown
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 Thomas CarlyleFrench RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution.'Robert Louis Stevenson Jules MicheletFrench RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading death of Swiss (Carlyle "French Revolution") to girls (Clennie and Diddie).'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleFrench RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution with much interest.'Robert Louis Stevenson Jules MicheletFrench Revolution/Histoire de la Revolution franca...Print: Book
1600-1699"In Geneva on the Grand Tour ... [Robert] Boyle would continue to pursue 'above all the Reading of Romances,' and would become fluent in French from doing so."Robert Boyle French romancesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Catherine Talbot French romancesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter French romancesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1868: "I read more or less, of course, but nothing noteworthy. A good deal of French, of which, at times, I get pretty sic...Henry James unknownFrench textsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words: too many I should say, were I reviewing for the Ti...Virginia Woolf unknownFrench textsPrint: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey French without a MasterPrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   437 438 439 440 441  442  443 444 445 446 447   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design