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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginal annotation in pencil in French throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Emile DurkheimDe la division du travail social: ?tude sur l?orga...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea...Mary Augusta ward Emile FaguetDix-Huitieme Siecle: Études Littéraires Print: Book
1900-1945'Saturday. Finished Hover Heath. Started Mystery of Orcival by [Thomas has left a blank here, evidently meaning to fill in the author information later]. 4-6 cards. William Thomas Emile GaboriauMystery of OrcivalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday. Finished Orcival. Read "Vigil" by Harold Begbie. 4-5 Service. Spoilt all by laughing. Sorry for parson.'William Thomas Emile GaboriauMystery of OrcivalPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'George Eliot [pseud] Emile Littre[on Comte]Print: Book
1900-1945'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.' Arnold Bennett Emile VerhaerenunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong Emile Zola Print: Book
1850-1899' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi...William Ewart Gladstone Emile Zola Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 13 May 1885: " ... the only thing I have read from la-bas [ie France] is the wondrous, and I must say in some ways admirable, Germinal."Henry James Emile ZolaGerminalPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 25 July 1896: '"Rome" is of a [italics] lourdeur [end italics] -- as I read it here at the rate of ten pages a day -- under which even my li...Henry James Emile ZolaRomePrint: Book
1850-1899'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart from work for his law examinations; though he admits t...Arnold Bennett Emile ZolaunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Pot-Bouille"; "Pot-Bouille" made me laugh, there is one good character'Robert Louis Stevenson Emile ZolaPot-BouillePrint: Book
1900-1945'15th September 1928. Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and somehow weaker than ?La Terre?, but also one of the Rougon...Gerald Moore Emile ZolaUne Page d'AmourPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Emile ZolaLa Fortune des RougonPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Emile ZolaSon Excellence Eugene RougonPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted b...George Gissing Emile Zola[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and ...George Gissing Emile Zola[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Pot-Bouille. Pot-Bouille made me laugh, there is one good character.'Robert Louis Stevenson Emile ZolaPot-BouillePrint: Serial / periodical
1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight. Howard Smith Émile Zola[letters on the Dreyus case]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.George Eliot [pseud] Emile Du Bois Reymond[book on Johannes Mueler]Print: Book


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