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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I have read Bragelonne'.Robert Louis Stevenson Alexandre DumasLe Vicomte de BragelonnePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I played a game of bagatelle with Dotty & a game of Bezique with Sissy & with that & "Monte Christo" managed to get through the evening until Polly went t...John Buckley Castieau Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte CristoPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just your case, -- having read only the first volume, ...Elizabeth Barrett Alexandre DumasFernandePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histo...Mary Russell Mitford Alexandre DumasLes Deux DianePrint: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histo...Mary Russell Mitford Alexandre DumasMemoires d'un Medecin: Joseph BalsamoPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1847: 'At Pisa, Robert read to me while I was ill [following miscarriage], & partly by being read to & p...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAlexandre DumasLe SperonarePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1845: 'Did I say anything to you of "Fernande" -- Dumases --? I fancy I did, during the reading of the first sev...Elizabeth Barrett Alexandre DumasFernandePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 1 October 1849: 'We have had much quiet enjoyment here [...] read some amusing books, (Dumas & Sue! -- shake your ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAlexandre Dumas Print: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Alexandre DumasNouveaux Entre'actesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The ladies did not retire till after eleven & then I laid myself down on the sofa & tried to sleep. The mosquitoes however would'ent allow anything of the kind & so afte...John Buckley Castieau Alexandre DumasMemoirs of a physicianPrint: Book
1800-1849'I only hope that its appalling details of profligacy are exaggerated'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Alexandre DumasLa RegencePrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you ever read Olympe de Cleves? If not, remember, it must be read.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexandre DumasOlympe de ClevesPrint: 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 Alexandre DumasTulipe NoirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Since leaving Oxford I have had quite a little opportunity for reading and have read all kinds of things, some of the better books being: Conan Doyle's "Micah Clar...Roderick Ward Maclennan Alexandre Dumas[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...Alexandre Dumas (pere)[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1850-1899'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It...John Masefield Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Three MusketeersPrint: Book
1850-1899[at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.'George Eliot [pseud] Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Count of Monte CristoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850: 'I am finishing the "Memoires d'un medecin"'. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alexandre Dumas (pere)Memoires d'un medecin: Joseph BalsamoPrint: Book


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