√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 "I think you have done Mrs B[rowning] very well. I have read it & put in some savage criticism, marking, however, what I really think should be omitted in a dictionary." Leslie Stephen Anne Isabella Ritchie 'Mrs Browning' (life for the DNB) Unknown 1850-1899 'I am reading "The Village on the Cliff", and cannot tell you how beautiful I think it. I am inclined to give up literature. [italics]I[end italics] can?t write like that... Robert Louis Stevenson Anne Isabella Thackeray The Village on the Cliff. A Novel. Print : Book1850-1899 November 18, 1881 [Paris] 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thackeray's on Mme. de Sevigne. Apropos of books, I ... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Madame de Sevigne Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Buonaparte'. Sydney Smith Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary The Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo Print : Book1700-1799 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics];... Laetitia Pilkington Anne Lefevre Dacier [translations of and notes on Homer] Print : Book1700-1799 [review of the novel. Noted but not reproduced by the editor] Ellen Weeton Anne Louise Stael-Holstein Corinna, or Italy Print : Book1800-1849 'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next letter.' Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein 'Considerations on the French Revolution' Print : Book1800-1849 'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject. Besides, it is no... Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein Considerations Sur La Revolution Francaise Print : Book1800-1849 '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-Holstein De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Madame de Stael sur les Passions. What a wonderful mind is hers! what an insight she has into the recesses of human feeling! How many secret springs does she unlock... Charlotte Bury Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein Treatise on the Influence of the Passions Print : Book1800-1849 'Madame de Stael's "Essai sur les fictions" delights me particularly: for every word in it is a beautiful echo of my own feelings'. Charlotte Bury Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein Essai sur les fictions Print : Book1800-1849 'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me had given her great pleasure'. Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein Petits Romans Print : Book1800-1849 '"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 Holstein De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Holstein De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 '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-Holstein De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 '[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) Stael De la Litterature consideree dans ses rapports ave... Print : Book1800-1849 '[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-Holstein De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looking over the Ayrshire Legatees, which I do not like a... Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael Dix Années d'exil Print : Book1800-1849 "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-Holstein De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Stael De l'Allemagne Print : Book
