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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
 
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Francois Mauriac, Le Desert de l'Amour (1925), and one l...Edward Morgan Forster Francois MauriacLa PharisiennePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Fa...Mary Russell Mitford Casimir DelavigneLa PopularitePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.'Virginia Woolf Andre GideLa Porte EtroitePrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham anon.La Princesse de ClevesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf Madame de La FayetteLa Princesse de ClevesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterpiece has long been on my conscience. Me to talk of f...Virginia Woolf Madame de la FayetteLa Princesse de ClevesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Fr?d?ric Paulhan, 'Les ph?nom?nes affectifs et les lois de leur apparition' (Paris : Felix...Vernon Lee Alexis BertrandLa psychologie de l?effort: les doctrines contempo...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Considerable marginalia in pencil in English and French throughout.Vernon Lee Alfred BinetLa psychologie du raisonnement: recherches exp?rim...Print: Book
1800-1849'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Voltaire. This Mock-Heroic illustrates several things -Fi...Thomas Carlyle Voltaire [pseud.]La Pucelle d'OrleansPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 11 July, 1797: 'I thank you for Chapelain. I read his poem with the hope of finding something & would gladly have reversed the sentence...Robert Southey Jean ChapelainLa Pucelle ou la France Délivrée Print: Book
1800-1849Mary 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 Leon GozlanLa Queue du chien d'AlcibiadePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were...Mary Russell Mitford Henri BalzacLa Recherche de L'AbsoluPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read till Dejeuner; sat opposite the Espieux. Afterwards finished the "Cathédral[e]" and talked to M. de Rival. Played chess with the bearded gentleman, finished "Paris"...Gertrude Bell Honoré de BalzacLa Recherche de l'AbsoluPrint: Book
1800-1849'I only hope that its appalling details of profligacy are exaggerated'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Alexandre DumasLa RegencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing acco...Francis Pollard Anatole FranceLa Reine PedauquePrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing acco...Alfred Rawlings Anatole FranceLa Reine PedauquePrint: Book
1900-1945'27th October 1928 (Saturday) ?La Rive d?Asie? (Claude Anet)' Gerald Moore Claude AnetLa Rive d?AsiePrint: 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 Anatole FranceLa Rotisserie de la reine PédauquePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been extremely interested by it, and think it a most remarkable book, beyond measure severe, every line is written with a brand of frame, but I feel that my recol...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Astolphe de CustineLa RussiaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to James and Julia Martin, 1 February 1847: 'We are reading (much at the latest) Custine's Russia'.Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAdolphe Marquis de CustineLa Russie en 1839Print: Book


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