Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   577 578 579 580 581  582  583 584 585 586 587   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very French it is too and yet with something individual-- and...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonLe Nègre aux Etats-UnisPrint: Book
1850-1899'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.'George Eliot (pseud) Denis DiderotLe Nevue de RameauPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Mercier's "Nouveau Paris", a sort of continuation of his...Mary Berry Bartholomew MercierLe Nouveau ParisPrint: Book
1850-1899'There is only one very good thing in the world: the acting of Sarah Bernhardt. I beg your pardon, there is another: Pierre Veron’s "Pantheon de Poche".'Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre VeronLe Pantheon de PochePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett Charles BernardLe ParaventPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "Le peche de M. Antoine", diluted and romantic; not good.'John Ruskin George SandLe peche de M. AntoinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the "Peche" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it suits them; then Carpenter so angry at the blow of ...John Ruskin George SandLe peche de M. AntoinePrint: Book
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T...George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesHonore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 December 1842: 'I sent Pere Goriot [...] because it is my belief that I never mentioned to you the name of Balzac, & th...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845: 'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] at last -- & the "Physiologie" besides [...] remembe...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901: 'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refusing to fly London with the rest of the world [...] I...Leonard Woolf Honore De BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 8 April 1902: 'I was glad to hear you had really read it [Le Pere Goriot] & I agree with you -- in the main -- about it. Of course pe...Lytton Strachey Honore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1850-1899'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.'Alfred Tennyson Honore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday June 2nd. [...] Read .' Claire Clairmont unknownLe petit Charles ou Neveu de mon onclePrint: Book
1900-1945'21st March 1929. ?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).' Gerald Moore Anatole FranceLe Petit PierrePrint: Book
1700-1799'After supper Mde. de Bombelles read 'Le Philanthrope' which is as amusing as possible'. [Madame] de Bombelles unknownLe PhilanthropePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'I have been reading old Froissart. after Sir Walter Manny & about a dozen Knights with three hundred ...Robert Southey Jean FroissartLe Premier (-Quart) Volume De Messire Jehan Froiss...Print: Book
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 Le Producteur, journal philosophique de l'industri...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 26th. [...] Read Prose Campestri da Pindemonte.' [reading from this text also recorded in journal entry for 5 March 1821, with 'Finish Poesie Campestre ...Claire Clairmont Ippolito PindemonteLe Prose e poesie campaestri d'Ippolito PindemontePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)Le Rime di Francesco PetrarcaPrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   577 578 579 580 581  582  583 584 585 586 587   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design