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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Whewell read Babbage, and was concerned that it had been his own Bridgewater which had stimulated Babbage to write one]William Whewell Charles BabbageNinth Bridgewater TreatisePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am better now; but it leaves me in a state of intellectual prostration, fit for nothing but smoking, and reading Charles Baudelaire.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaudelaireunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'And yet I am going to send you a book that was written altogether in the spirit of that place. I send it however, because it is just one of those specimens of consummate...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaudelairePetits poemes en prosePrint: Book
1850-1899'[?] I could not [?] pay the postage for the book. [?] The book, you will receive shortly. Do not run away with the idea that I think it specially commendable. Only I th...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaudelairePetits Poemes en ProsePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translati...Edith Sitwell Charles BaudelaireLes fleurs du malPrint: Book
1900-1945Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und rein wie eine flamme,' and Baudelaire's 'Hymne' ('A la...Edward Morgan Forster Charles Baudelaire'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle')Print: Book
1850-1899'This [i.e. letter] had been lying a long while. I must send it off in proof I didn’t quite forget you. I saw yours to the Baronick, and was surprised at one piece of int...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaxterletterManuscript: Letter
1700-1799Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage.Gertrude Savile Charles BeckinghamThe Life of Mr Richard SavagePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett Charles BernardUn homme serieuxPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett Charles BernardLe ParaventPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett Charles BernardUne Aventure de magistratPrint: Book
1800-1849'I likewise turned into Charles Bossut's Mecanique - to study his demonstration of pendulums, and his doctrine of forces. The text is often tediously explanatory - & in ...Thomas Carlyle Charles BossutMecaniquePrint: Book
1800-1849'It is very likely that I may send you some Mathematical thing or other, seeing I have got Bossut's history of mathematics, at this time, where perhaps there may be somet...Thomas Carlyle Charles BossutEssai sur l'histoire generale des mathematiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...Thomas Carlyle Charles BossutEssai sur l'histoire generale ds mathematiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Philip Stanley - very stupid'.Mary Godwin Charles Brockden BrownPhilip Stanley; or, the Enthusiasm of LovePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'Mary Shelley Charles Brockden BrownArthur MervynPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 1st. Read Ormond.' Claire Clairmont Charles Brockden BrownOrmond; or, the Secret WitnessPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes his critique & then reads Edgar Huntley to us all all day and all the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Brockden-BrownEdgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walkerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When she read his Memoirs, she found them incomplete, and...Frances Burney Charles BurneyMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'"Do you know Dr. Burney, Ma'am?" said Mr Thrale. "No Sir, but I know his Book. I think it's vastly pretty;"'Victoria Kynaston Charles Burney'Present State of Music in France and Italy' or 'G...Print: Book


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