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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Friday August 26th. Boring Morning [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'.Claire Clairmont L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct. 9th. [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel about the Illuminati'. ...Percy Bysshe Shelley L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political Justice & talk with Shelley over the fire till -- 12 o'clock.' ...Percy Bysshe Shelley L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct. 12 -- [...] Return [from Newgate Street] to dinner at six. Read Abbe Barruel. To bed at ten.' ...Claire Clairmont L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Bertrand De Moleville's "Memoirs of the Last Year of the Reign of Louis the 16th". They contain much curious, and I presume, authentic information relative to ...Thomas Green Bertrand de MolevilleMemoires secrets pour servir a l'histoirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but they give me a great desire to read more, particularl...Anne Romilly Albert Jean Michel de RoccaMémoires sur la guerre des Français en EspagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but they give me a great desire to read more, particularl...Sophie Romilly Albert Jean Michel de RoccaMémoires sur la guerre des Français en EspagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverle...Anne Romilly Albert Jean Michel de RoccaMémoires Sur La Guerre Des Français En EspagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday [...] Oct. 9th. [...] I pack up [for family's departure from holiday home, following death of a child] & read the whole day Memoirs of Madame Campan.'Claire Clairmont Jeanne Louise Henriette CampanMemoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, re...Print: Book
1800-1849'Unwell - read Madme de Stael's vie privee de Necker'Mary Shelley Madame de StaelMemoires sur la vie privee de mon pere, par Madame...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remember reading his memoirs in January 1815 (at Halnaby --...George Gordon Lord Byron Edmund LudlowmemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and daughter, of Mr. R. L. Edgeworth, the father of the M...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Lovell and Maria EdgeworthMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Edgeworth's Memoirs of something similar ... in the ca...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Lovell and Maria EdgeworthMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to himself [John Cam Hobhouse]? ......Douglas Kinnaird George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		"... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present ...Maria Edgeworth Vittorio AlfieriMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large building, with a fa?ade to it like a very large hotel or ...Maria Edgeworth Maxmillian de Bethune SullyMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the translation which talks of her uncle Bimont's dying...Maria Edgeworth Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la PlatiereMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When she read his Memoirs, she found them incomplete, and...Frances Burney Charles BurneyMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I read recently, by the way ... [George Sand's] Memoirs a compact little work in ten volu...Henry James George SandMemoirsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delig...Henry James Henry Crabbe RobinsonMemoirsPrint: Book


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