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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
 
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved


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Victor Alexander William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849‘...I shall give my own poetical translation, also, of the scenes which Schiller in his translation of Macbeth has substituted for the original witch-scenes. He has alt...Hartley Coleridge William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for who...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia [n/a]Macmillan's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Flaubert when he was around 15 or 16 and] 'He afterwards admitted that his favourite character in fiction was Emma Bovary.'Alfred Hitchcock Gustav FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.'Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pai...Leonard Woolf Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907: 'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the train last week to look after cattle disease. As I read ...Leonard Woolf Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is close to a miracle. I well remember that when I was wr...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame Bovary". In fact I have read it only after finishin...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first words of Conrad's first book ["Almayer's Folly"] were pencilled on the fly-leaves and margins of "Madame Bovary".'Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Eve CurieMadame CuriePrint: Book
1850-1899November 18, 1881 [Paris] 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thackeray's on Mme. de Sevigne. Apropos of books, I ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Anne Isabella Thackeray RitchieMadame de SevignePrint: Book
1850-1899'Certain events (which I will relate when I see you?may it be soon) at the office have given me an idea for another novel; a study of religious mania?? la 'Madame Gervais...Arnold Bennett Edmond de GoncourtMadame GervaisaisPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 22 November 1848:

'I have read "Madeleine." It is a fine pearl in a simple setting. Julia Kavanagh has my esteem; I would...		Charlotte Brontë Julia KavanaghMadeleinePrint: Book
1800-1849?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the celebrated palace of Chantilly, made still more int...Maria Edgeworth Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse)Mademoiselle de ClermontPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at the same time. The subject is taken from the reign of...Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de GenlisMademoiselle de La Fayette : ou le siecle de Louis...Print: Book


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