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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Thursday March 29th. [...] Read L'Avaro Fastoso di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniL'Avaro FastosoPrint: Book
1700-1799'I played the harpsichord most part of the evening. Then we began to read a play of Mr de Salis (made by him) entitled "L'Ecole aux Maris Malhonnetes". It is very badly w...Elizabeth Wynne and others[Mr] de SalisL'Ecole aux Maris MalhonnetesPrint: Unknown
1900-1945I wish I could write short novels like your completely admirable 'L’Ecole des Femmes'. But I can’t.Arnold Bennett André GideL'Ecole des FemmesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In a letter to Charles Boner (28 February 1851), Miss Mitford wrote that she had read L'Ecole des journalistes "in a Bruxelles edition with serveral feuilletons about it...Mary Russell Mitford Delphine de GirardinL'Ecole des journalistesPrint: Book
1700-1799'we came back in the dark and read "L'Ecole des Maris" and after we played at 21'Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Moliere [pseud.]L'Ecole des MarisPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl...Thomas Carlyle Gotthold Ephraim LessingL'Education du genre humainPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the French, found its way into "To the North". In 1932 sh...Elizabeth Bowen Gustave FlaubertL'Education SentimentalePrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Gustave FlaubertL'Education SentimentalePrint: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797): 'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] we are of an afternoon, my aunt reads and tells us st...Harriet Ponsonby Voltaire L'Enfant prodigePrint: Book
1900-1945'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's mo...Joseph Conrad Jean Masbrenier (Mariel)L'enseignement de GoethePrint: Book
1900-1945'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her....Katherine Mansfield ColetteL'EntravePrint: Book
1900-1945'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her....Katherine Mansfield ColetteL'EntravePrint: Book
1850-1899'Fortune has written another book, the Equipage of the Devil, which is fully worse than words can describe.'Robert Louis Stevenson Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille (Boisgobey)L'Equipage du Diable (Equipage of the Devil)Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "L'escholle de...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,...Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of "L'escolle des Filles", which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss ...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des Filles"; a lewd book, but what doth me no wrong to read for information sake (but it d...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,...Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday April 13th. [...] Read L'Etourdi of Moliere.'Claire Clairmont MoliereL'EtourdiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.'Claire Clairmont MoliereL'EtourdiPrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamL'Eve FuturePrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamL'Eve FuturePrint: Book


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