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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
 
1800-1849'Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria da Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniLa Moglie saggiaPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) '... you simply must read this book of Maeterlinck's on death. It is full of the most interesting stuff, and even when you don't believe his theories they always ha...Clive Staples Lewis Maurice MaeterlinckLa MortPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:] 'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collected from all the frippery shelves throughout Westminst...Elizabeth Carter Salomon GessnerLa Mort d'AbelPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 August 1761:] 'I am ashamed to say I have not yet sent La Mort d'Abel to Mrs Donnelan; but the truth is, I began reading it to...Catherine Talbot Salomon GessnerLa Mort d'AbelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jolted back to Nyaungu and got in soon after tea. Had tea, read and finished La Mort des Dieux and wrote to Uncle George.' Gertrude Bell Dmitry Sergyeevich MerezhkovskyLa Mort des Dieux: Le roman de Julien l'ApostatPrint: Book
1700-1799" Then my beloved read La Morte d'Abel"Sarah Ponsonby La Morte D'AbelPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was very happy to receive "La Musique et les nations" yesterday. I read the Debussy immediately and with the greatest of pleasure.' Joseph Conrad Gérard Jean-AubryLa Musique et les nationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I violently disagree with you as to El?mir Bourges. I defy you to put your hand on your heart & say you have read the 'Nef' all through.'Arnold Bennett El?mir BourgesLa NefPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding his House in Disorder sets it on Fire in stead of s...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean Jacques RousseauLa Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1900-1945'I think you should like 'La Nouvelle Revue Francaise' (31 Rue Jacob, Paris. 1 fr 50c. monthly). The critical articles at the end are always quite first class, & much o...Arnold Bennett La Nouvelle Revue FrancaisePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Rivière, I pass a fortnight before opening it. The fo...Arnold Bennett La Nouvelle Revue FrancaisePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantLa Nuit Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Tuesday, 30th March, Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players are taking up all his time. Bal. Lear takes his pla...Gerald Moore Honore de BalzacLa Peau de ChagrinPrint: Book
1850-1899'The other day for a treat Charlie got me La Petite Comtesse to read. I never was more delighted with any story. It is so beautifully and pathetically written, but so s...Katey Dickens Feuillet OctaveLa Petite ComtessePrint: Book
1850-1899'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. Fr...John Ruskin Octave FeuilletLa Petite ComtessePrint: Book
1850-1899'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter...Maud du Puy George SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmitz "History of Greece", it all helps to pass away the...Albert Battiscombe George SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have the whole of her novels before me. Even La Petite Fadette, for as long as it was in the house, I had not read.'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "La Petite Fadette" all day, and able to think of nothing else. Nothing learned today but the finish and passion of George Sand among French writers, and her sen...John Ruskin George SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading lately "Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds" and "La petite Soeur" two little vaudevilles by Mr Scribe -'Albert Battiscombe Eug?ne ScribeLa Petite soeur, com?die vaudeville en 1 actePrint: Book


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