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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
 
1700-1799'At the house party where Anna met the Bishop of Llandaff, guests took it in turns to read to one another. On 1 July 1780, for instance, after hearing her sister Clara re...Clara RollinHistoire anciennePrint: Book
1800-1849'Now that you have finished Rollin, I think you ought to begin some other book on general literature, directed if possible like it, in some degree to the progress of your...John A. Carlyle Charles RollinHistoire ancienne des Egyptiennes, des Carthaginoi...Print: Book
1900-1945'But if you wanted to please me you could do what you could to log roll René Béhaine who, in the eyes of Léon Daudet and myself and other worthy people , passes for the...Ford Madox Ford René BéhaineHistoire d'une SociétePrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh VoltaireHistoire de Charles XIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde also excelled in French. His copy of Voltaire's "Histoire de Charles XII" bears the autograph and date "Oscar Wilde September 2nd 1865 [...] On page 171 the ten-ye...Oscar Wilde VoltaireHistoire de Charles XIIPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include extract from Voltaire, Charles XII Book 3 (on the execution of Jean Reginald Patkul, amb...Edward Morgan Forster Voltaire Histoire de Charles XII (Book 3)Print: 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 ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de SuedePrint: 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 Voltaire (pseud.)Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede
1800-1849'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in the Evening. [...] 'Sunday [...] October 2nd. read the life of...Claire Clairmont Voltaire Histoire de Charles XII, roi de SuedePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that S...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, & the only tolerable history.' Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations against Nessa [for issuing invitation to Igor and Helen A...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: "A fine, compact story; disfigured by a delight in the loathsom...George Otto Trevelyan Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'I have procured an old translation of De Serres. but I am told the best account of the Maid [of Orleans...Robert Southey Jean de SerresHistoire de France Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards George Trevelyan; who has just been made Master of Trinit...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de France vol.15Print: Book
1850-1899'Morning, note Beza's blasphemous address to Henry IV: "O Dieu, laisse aller tone serviteur en paix, car mes yeux avant de s'eteindre ont vu le liberateur de la France et...John Ruskin GaullieurHistoire de GenevePrint: Book
1700-1799"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever boo...William Wordsworth Alain Rene Le SageHistoire de Gil Blas de SantillanePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Gil Blas'Mary Shelley Alain-Rene LesageHistoire de Gil Blas de SantillanePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Gil Blas - read Livy'Mary Shelley Alain-Rene LesageHistoire de Gil Blas de SantillanePrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Louis MaimbourgHistoire de l'arianisme depuis sa naissance, jusqu...Print: Book


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