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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 just reread "Le fils Grandsire", opening the book at random, and continuing at random, I have read every single word. with an odd and entirely sentimental fondnes...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: 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 Mariage forcePrint: Book
1900-1945'27th February 1929. Paris is having a gay old time following the dispute between the luck of the press and M. Coty. Yesterday, Coty came out with a four column poste...Gerald Moore Le MatinPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The news of Lord Kitchener's death reached us while we were at Hinges. Someone walked into our billet and said they had just heard Kitchener was dead. "Another rum...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Le MatinPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Forgive me for the delay in thanking you for the volume you were so kind to as to send me. How well done, well conceived, well said! Your "Ariane" is easily the most cha...Joseph Conrad André RuytersLe Mauvais RichePrint: Book
1700-1799'As Mr de Regis was gone to St Gall today, M. l'Abbe read to us "Le Medecin Malgre lui" of Moliere a charming comedy that diverted me greatly'M. l'Abbe Moliere [pseud.]Le Medecin Malgre LuiPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'Claire Clairmont MoliereLe Medecin malgre luiPrint: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassin...Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbo...Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Voltaire before breakfast (87)'Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire...Print: Book
1800-1849'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire...Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads...Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Voltaire Essai sur des Nations'Percy Bysshe Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire...Print: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations (203)'.Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire...Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal dro...Virginia Woolf Moliere Le MisanthropePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1845: 'I have been loitering over "Le monde comme il est" & think your thoughts of it. Good things, excellent thi...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Astolphe Louis Leonard Marquis de CustineLe Monde comme il estPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' "So upon Trinity Sunday at night King Arthur dreamed ...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas MaloryLe Morte D'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have nearly finished The Morte D'arthur. I am more pleased at having bought it every day, as it has opened up a new world to me. I had no idea that the Arthurian leg...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas MaloryLe Morte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have been reading again the second volume of Malory, especially the part of the "Sangreal" which I had forgotten. With all its faults, in small doses this book i...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas MaloryLe Morte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while for me to keep the work.'George Eliot [pseud.] unknownLe Moyen Age IllustrePrint: Book


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