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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'Read Mille et un nuits'Mary Shelley Antoine GallandLes Mille et une Nuits: contes arabes traduits en ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'Mary Shelley Antoine GallandLes Mille et une Nuits: contes arabes traduits en ...Print: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ...John Buchan Victor-Marie HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise...Patrick McGill Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1900-1945'but I was reading "Les Miserables", and consoled myself with the thought that I was too capable of loving noble things.'Edwin Muir Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Wilson introduced us to another author - Victor Hugo... in 1925, "Les Miserables" gripped us even more than "Pickwick". Mr Wilson must have abridged it ruthlessly, bu...Walter Wilson Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'At present I am deep in Les Misérables, which is wonderful.'Constance Wilde Victor HugoLes MisérablesPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved


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4. The Subje...

E. Dorothy Brain Victor HugoLes MisérablesPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I think it was Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables that decided me to do what I could to alleviate the distress and suffering of the poor. That story gives you such a viv...David Lloyd George Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Fog in the early morning, sun came out after lunch. Quite chilly. Read Arabic and "Les Misérables".' Gertrude Bell Victor HugoLes MisérablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Misérables" and began "Simon Dale". [...].The little Morel boy and I made paper boats and sailed them in the bath this afternoon. We passed the Northern po...Gertrude Bell Victor HugoLes MisérablesPrint: Book
1850-1899"In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His target was not his host, Richard Monckton Milnes ... No...Algernon Swinburne Algernon SwinburneLes Noyades
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Victor Alexander René BazinLes OberléPrint: Book
1900-1945Meanwhile I have been enjoying myself reading Anatole France and the philosophy of M. Jérôme Coignard. What a charming creation. 'Il meprise les hommes avec tendres...Freya Stark Anatole FranceLes Opinions de Jérôme CoignardPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845: 'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[end italics] have only seen that one volume) is anot...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Honore de BalzacLes Paysans Print: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rosamond Lehmann Comtesse de SegurLes Petites Filles Mod?lesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846: 'Any more news of Balzac? "Les petits maneges" I have read & thought excellent -- but it is a continuation o...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Honore de BalzacLes Petits Menages d'une Femme verteusePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Alexis Bertrand, 'La psychologie de l?effort: les doctrines contemporaines'Vernon Lee Fr?d?ric PaulhanLes ph?nom?nes affectifs et les lois de leur appar...Print: Book


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