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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read the vision of Quivedo'Mary Shelley Francisco Gomez de Quivedo y VillegasSuenos y discursos de verdadesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Walk with S. - he reads some of the tales of Sacchetti aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Franco SacchettiDelle novellePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] Franco SachettiNovellePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'George Eliot [pseud] Franco Sachetti[probably] NovellePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, mid-December 1847: 'We are going through some of old Sacchetti's novelets now: characteristic work for Florence, ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningFranco di Benci SacchettiTrecento novellePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: pen annotations on binding pages appear to be page references to a number of topics eg: "Jesseigne"; "Rajah Rannah". Occasional marks in the margins, usuall...John Drummond Erskine Francois BernierHistory of the late revolution of the empire of th...Print: Book
1850-1899'The French stories by Julliot are dull and odious, and the little novel ''La Folle du Logis'' quite pretty and nice. How very odd the French are.'Emma Darwin Francois de Julliot?Terre de FrancePrint: Book
1850-1899'The French stories by Julliot are dull and odious, and the little novel ''La Folle du Logis'' quite pretty and nice. How very odd the French are.'Emma Darwin Francois de JulliotLa Folle du LogisPrint: Book
1800-1849"The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser - not but that you will also heretically deny his in...Leslie Stephen Francois de La RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: 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 Francois de La RochefoucauldMaximesPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille' (1607, followed ...Edward Morgan Forster Francois de Malherbe'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de ...Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois' (1628), followed b...Edward Morgan Forster Francois de Malherbe'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Roch...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have finished "Telemaque," and have read one, or two of Racine's plays, which I like very ...Elizabeth Barrett Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-FenelonLes Aventures de TelemaquePrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh Francois FenelanLes Aventures de TelemaquePrint: Book
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle Francois FenelonAbrege des vies des anciens philosophesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'Mary Shelley Francois FenelonLes Aventures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse, ou suit...Print: Book
1700-1799'When one reads in Fenelon's last Letter to the Kings Confessor "Quand j'aurai l'honneur de voir Dieu, je lui demanderai cette Grace" - speaking of the Life & Health of L...Hester Lynch Thrale Francois Fenelon[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.'George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesFrancois HuberNew Observations on the Natural History of BeesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Francois MauriacLes Anges NoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Francois Mauriac, Le Desert de l'Amour (1925), and one l...Edward Morgan Forster Francois MauriacLe Desert de l'AmourPrint: Book


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