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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
 
1700-1799'In the evening I wrote to Mary Montalban and to her husband, and we read "Les Plaideurs" which made us laugh like fools'.Elizabeth Wynne and othersJean RacineLes PlaideursPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Moliere [pseud.]Les Precieuses RidiculesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 January 1838: 'Read "Les Precieuses Ridicules," which did not amuse me very much; though acted I can fancy it capital.'Harriet Martineau MoliereLes Precieuses RidiculesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Betsey Wynne:] We read this evening "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Les Precieuses Ridicules" of the Theatre of Moliere. I thought I should die from laughing in hearing the ... Moliere [pseud.]Les Precieuses RidiculesPrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1700-1799[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w...Eugenia Wynne Moliere [pseud.]Les Precieuses RidiculesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'Claire Clairmont unknownLes precieuses ridiculesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blaise PascalLes ProvincialesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was reading Pascal's "lettres provinciales". None can help admiring his wit & probity. He sustains excellently the character of [italics]naivet?[end italics]which he h...Thomas Carlyle Blaise PascalLes Provinciales, ou les lettresPrint: Book
1900-1945Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages:147-8, 154-5.Vernon Lee Alfred BinetLes r?v?lations de l??criture d?apr?s un contr?le ...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginalia, mainly in French but some in English, throughout.Vernon Lee Jules CombarieuLes rapports de la musique et de la po?sie: consid...Print: Book
1850-1899'The best of the present French novelists seems to me, incomparably, Daudet. Les Rois en Exil comes very near to being a masterpiece.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alphonse DaudetLes Rois en ExilPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Constantin VolneyLes ruinesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginal notes in English and French throughout, especially pp.127-37Vernon Lee Henri Etienne BeaunisLes sensations internesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: '"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] answer for [to friend seeking advice on choosing F...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLes sept cordes de la lyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in Paris, which he read with great admiration in March 1...Arnold Bennett Joris Karl HuysmansLes Soeurs VatardsPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
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6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had rece...		Howard Smith Roger Martin du GardLes ThibaultPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was only a month before or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had read to him aloud from beginning to end, and to his perfect satisfaction, as he lay on the be...Joseph Conrad Victor HugoLes Travailleurs de la Mer Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, Conrad's father's translation into Polish.
1850-1899'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don’t remember any child’s book. I don’t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo’s "Travailleurs...Joseph Conrad Victor HugoLes Travailleurs de la merPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Detailed marginalia in French in pencil on the following pages: 49-51Vernon Lee Julien-Noel CostantinLes v?g?taux et les milieux cosmiques (adaptation ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter to you while my mind is stored with Ideas worth tra...Jane Austen Madame de Genlisles Veillees du ChateauPrint: Book


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