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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Friday October 13 [...] Read Memoirs of O'Connor'. Claire Clairmont Arthur O'Connor, T. A. Emmett, and W. J. McNevinMemoir on the Objects of the Societies of United I...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Textual marginalia in pencil in French on page 46 only, and some pencil marks in the margins throughout.Vernon Lee Lucien ArreatMemoire et imaginationPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de MetternicheMemoiresPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "I send you by this post the magnificent Memoires de Marbot, which should have gone to you sooner by my hand if I ha...Henry James Marcelin MarbotMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she has nothing to tell and does not tell it very well....Sydney Smith Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de StaalMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 March 1842: 'I [italics]have[end italics] read Marmontel's memoirs .. & a most amusing book it is'.Elizabeth Barrett Jean Francois MarmontelMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842: 'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memoires. They are most characteristically delightf...Elizabeth Barrett Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de MontpensierMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842: 'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memoires. They are most characteristically delightful...Elizabeth Barrett Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-SimonMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843: 'You must remember Mademoiselle de Montpensier's delightful memoirs. She was fifty or past it when she met L...Elizabeth Barrett Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de MontpensierMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: 'If you do not remember the memoires of "La Grande Mademoiselle" as she was called, mind to read them ag...Elizabeth Barrett Anne Marie Louise Henriette d'Orleans Duchesse de MontpensierMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'What paltry stuff the Memoirs of poor vain Genlis are!'Sarah Harriet Burney Stephanie Felicite Brulart, comtesse de GenlisMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Diary, 3 October 1834: 'I happened to mention the profuse fabrication of French Memoires, and instanced those of Fouche; the Duke said: "I da...Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington FoucheMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Andre MorelletMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Bourrienne's Memoirs? Sick as I thought myself of Buonaparte and all that related to his tremendous though short-lived success (I always consider him as a ...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de BourrienneMemoiresPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read […] Comines […]'Robert Louis Stevenson Philippe de ComminesMemoiresPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Jeanne Louise Henriette Genet CampanMémoiresPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937: 'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want anything so ecstatic, but broad and mellow and satisf...Virginia Woolf George SandMemoires (vol 5)Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Germania and "memoire d'un Detenu".'Percy Bysshe Shelley Honore Jean, Baron de RiouffeMemoires d'un detenu pour servir a l'histoire de l...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histo...Mary Russell Mitford Alexandre DumasMemoires d'un Medecin: Joseph BalsamoPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850: 'I am finishing the "Memoires d'un medecin"'. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alexandre Dumas (pere)Memoires d'un medecin: Joseph BalsamoPrint: Book


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