√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann... Claire Clairmont Johann Joachim Winckelmann Histoire de l'art chez les anciens Print : Book1800-1849 'I took Bail]ly's "histoire d'Astronomie", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to write with great eloquence & perspicuity; but I have ... Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain Bailly Histoire de l'astronomie moderne Print : Book1800-1849 'Three weeks ago, I finished M. Bailly's "histoire de l'Astronomie Modern[e.]" His acquaintance with the science seems to have been more extensive than profound; his stil... Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain Bailly Histoire de l'astronomie moderne Print : Book1850-1899 'Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Comines, Villon' George Eliot [pseud] Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard Histoire de la litt?rature fran?aise Print : Book1800-1849 'I think he has great merit, uncommon clearness of style & thought, as an historian and a general impartiality, which extends sometimes to vice and virtue, despotism & li... G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Adolphe Thiers Histoire de la Révolution Française Print : Book1850-1899 'Imagine my delight to find a footnote in Capefigs thus conceived ... Immediately after, Capefigues talks of la grande flotte de Dracke.' Robert Louis Stevenson Jean Baptise Honore Raymond Capefigue Histoire de la Reforme, de la Ligue, et du Regne d... Print : Book1800-1849 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols... Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Adolphe Thiers Histoire de la Revolution Francaise Print : Book1850-1899 Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ... Beatrice Webb George Sand Histoire de ma vie Print : Book1850-1899 'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except
those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily
together... Joseph Conrad Etienne-Denis Pasquier Histoire de mon temps: mémoires du chancelier Pasq... Print : Book1850-1899 'O boy, I'm deep in Lanfry.' Robert Louis Stevenson Jean-Pierre Lanfry Histoire de Napoleon 1er Print : Book1800-1849 'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Towe... Sarah Harriet Burney Philippe-Paul, comte de Segur Histoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee, pendan... Print : Book1700-1799 [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:]
'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, that I may return it to her? if not, when you write, pr... Catherine Talbot Rene Aubert de Vertot Histoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de... Print : Book1800-1849 '[Tuesday] March 13th. [...] In the Evening read Das Lied von der Glocke [Schiller] and begin the
History of the Crusades by Michaud.' Claire Clairmont Joseph Francois Michaud Histoire des croisades Print : Book1800-1849 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than... Sarah Harriet Burney Joseph-Francois Michaud Histoire des Croisades Print : Book1800-1849 'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I desired my friend Madame Belloc to use her own disc... Maria Edgeworth Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de Lamartine Histoire des Girondins Print : Book1800-1849 Mary 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 Alphonse Lamartine Histoire des Girondins Print : Book1800-1849 Mary 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... Queen Victoria and Royal Household Alphonse Lamartine Histoire des Girondins Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' George Eliot [pseud.] Eliakim Carmoly Histoire des M?decins Juifs Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'From the vocabularies given in Le Maire's voyage (see Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 410) it appears clearly that the languages given there as... Joseph Banks Charles de Brosse Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes Print : Book1700-1799 'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making any material observations upon it; so that all we c... Joseph Banks Charles De Brosses Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, con... Print : Book
