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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
 
1850-1899'I have found […] a "Courant" which was speedily dismembered and has been read eagerly down to the Theatre Advertisements.'Robert Louis Stevenson Le CourantPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to Jane Eyre in spontaneousness & earnestness: I found ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningHonore de BalzacLe Cousin PonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's an...Joseph Conrad Elémir BourgesLe Crépuscule des Dieux: Moeurs ContemporainesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Percy Shelley's hand] Still at Havre - engage a passage - wind contrary [end italics] - read "le crimenel secret" which is a very curious and striki...Mary Godwin [unknown]Le Criminel SecretPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot and intrigue of this play is excellent.'Claire Clairmont MoliereLe Depit AmoureuxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'Claire Clairmont MoliereLe Depit AmoureuxPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844: 'I have just finished the "Chouans." Of a certain power, without any doubt, but very heavy in many parts...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLe dernier ChouanPrint: Book
1900-1945I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecency but because it its dullness, poorness, and badness...Arnold Bennett Paul MargueritteLe DésastrePrint: Book
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 MauriacLe Desert de l'AmourPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'ricordati di Biondetta [...] [the sale of] Newstead--that is a pity--why not have kept it & taken Biondetta there & have livd [sic] and died happy'.Lady Caroline Lamb Jacques CazotteLe diable amoreuxPrint: Book
1800-1849'read le diable boiteux [...] in the evening read le diable boiteux and play at chess'.Mary Godwin Alain Rene LesageLe Diable boiteuxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday August [...] 19th. [...] Read Le Distrait by Regnier [sic].'Claire Clairmont Jean Francois RegnardLe DistraitPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniLe Donne CuriosePrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 8 March 1826: 'Being jaded and sleepy I took up Le Duc de Guise en Naples. I think this, with the old Memoires on the same subject [...] would enable me t...Walter Scott M. De PastoretLe Duc de Guise a Naples etc. en 1647 et 1648Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two ...Claire Clairmont MoliereLe Festin de PierrePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read Barbusse in trenches and he made me see things I had never seen before though they were before my eyes every day; yet his description bore the same relation to an...Stephen Lucius Gwynn Henri BarbusseLe FeuPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Le FevrePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): " ... I read the Figaro every day, religiously, and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth."Henry James Le FigaroPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[a teacher at St Edmunds Scool, Canterbury] 'encouraged him by supplying him regularly with the literary pages of Le Figaro. From then on Durrell became hooked on French...Lawrence Durrell [n/a]Le FigaroPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Bright and fine, a lot of new snow on the Meije. Breakfasted in my room and down at 9. The Germans [fellow climbers] joined me outside. Read my "Figaros".' Gertrude Bell Le FigaroPrint: Newspaper


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