√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort. The book is not ill-written: but it grieved me to see the august historian of astronomy, the... Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain Bailly Memoires D'un Temoin De La Revolution Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842:
'I remember [...] reading in the curious Memoires d'une femme de qualite, a mot upon Madme
de Genlis who... Elizabeth Barrett Etienne Leon de Lamothe-Langon Memoires d'une Femme de Qualite sur Louis XVIII, s... Print : Book1800-1849 'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have... Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown] Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon Print : Book1600-1699 'I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I think she has a good deale of witt . . . But the storry ... Dorothy Osborne Marguerite de Valois Memoires de la Reyne Marguerite Print : Book1700-1799 'Finished the "Memoirs of Grammont"; which exhibit, with less wit and spirit than I expected, a shameful picture of the voluptuousness, intrigues, and abandoned profligac... Thomas Green Anthony Hamilton Memoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Baron E.L. de la Mothe - Houdancourt Memoires de Madame la comtesse de Barri Print : Book1800-1849 '[Tuesday] May 12-24th [...] Early in the morning I read Madame Roland
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'Wednesday May 13th.-25th [...] Finish the Memoirs of Madame Roland.' Claire Clairmont Saint Albin Berville and Jean Francois Barriere Memoires de Madame Roland Print : Book1800-1849 'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'. Sydney Smith Jacques Peuchet Memoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie... Print : Book1800-1849 'Thursday March 11th [...] Read Vie de Mademoiselle de Montpensiers ecrite par elle meme.' Claire Clairmont Mademoiselle de Montpensier Memoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, fille de ... Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Lucas Montigny Memoires de Mirabeau sa famille et ses ecrits Print : Book1800-1849 Saturday, 28 February 1829:
'Read part of a curious work calld Memoirs of Vidocque, a fellow who was at the head of Bonaparte's police. It is a picaresque tale, in oth... Walter Scott Memoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete ... Print : Book1800-1849 Sunday, 1 March 1829:
'I labourd heard [i.e. 'hard'?] the whole day and between hands refreshd myself with Vidocque's Memoirs.' Walter Scott Vidocque Memoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete ... Print : Book1900-1945 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u... Joseph Conrad Jean Rapp Mémoires écrits par lui-même Print : Book1800-1849 'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 ... Mary Shelley Madame de Genlis Memoires inedits de madame la comtesse de Genlis Print : Book1800-1849 'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch with all his talents! To go dangling about, for the ... Thomas Carlyle Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de Sade Memoires pour la vie de Francois Petrarch Print : Book1700-1799 'He [Johnson] was for a considerable time occupied in reading "Memoires de Fontenelle" leaning and swinging upon the low gate into the court, without his hat.'
Samuel Johnson abbe Trublet Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la vie et des... Print : Book1700-1799 'I have seen nothing new, & have been reading the Memoirs of Mde de Maintenon in French, which are exceedingly entertaining'. Sarah Harriet Burney Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Madame de Mai... Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]... Mary Godwin Augustine, l'abbe Barruel Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinism 1800-1849 'Wednesday August 24th. Read Abbe Bar[ruel]' Claire Clairmont L'Abbe Augustin Barruel Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme Print : Book1800-1849 'Thursday Aug-- 25th. Get up late [...] Go to the large & only boutique in Brunnen with [P. B.]
Shelley -- Remove [to] the house on the hill [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'... Claire Clairmont L'Abbe Augustin Barruel Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme Print : Book
