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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 MauriacLa PharisiennePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francois RabelaisThe Works of Francis RabelaisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow ...Allen Clarke Francois RabelaisGargantua and PantagruelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt Francois Rabelais Print: Book
1900-1945'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'Lawrence Durrell Francois Rabelais[unknown]Print: Book
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1600-1699		'Although he read Rabelais and several other French authors in the original, it is unlikely that [Gabriel] Harvey's mastery of this language approached that of Italian'. Gabriel Harvey Francois RabelaisunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy of Rabelais, in four volumes, imprinted by Philip Cr...John Mitchel Francois Rabelais[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Francois Rabelais Print: Book
1850-1899'Although Mrs Craigie carried out her "duties" as a Roman Catholic, she took her religion lightly, and from her writings it was easy to read that she did not mind jests a...Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie François Rabelais [unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'All I can say is that when seen from the top of a building, from whence the eye takes it in at one view, it does not look nearly so large as it seems to be when you walk...Joseph Banks Francois ValentijnOudt en Nieuw Oost-IndiePrint: Book
1850-1899'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I needed an inner life". From "Peter Ibbetson" he learned o...John Masefield Francois Villon Print: Book
1900-1945'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'Lawrence Durrell Francois Villon[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'The Frenchman who wrote Maxims says 'there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with Ingratitude'.George Crabbe Francois de La RochefoucauldMaximesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Anch'io have been reading La Rochefaucould [sic] - and he has furnished me with an excellet Motto for my third Volume - And what is more to the purpose, with some entert...Sarah Harriet Burney Francois de la RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossibl...Robert Southey François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of Shelley's reading in early 1816. Later in the year t...Percy Bysshe Shelley Francois de Salignac de la Mothe FenelonLes Adventures de TelemaquePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francois Marie Arouet VoltaireA Treatise on TolerationPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'.George Eliot [pseud.] Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot[probably] The History of France from the Earliest...Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'.Claire Clairmont Francois Rene de ChateaubriandDe Buonaparte, des Bourbons, et de la necessite de...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'I always thought Chateaubriand had a great deal of the mountebank in him. I bought the play [which she also watched] so you will see it. In his preface he talks of Racin...Louisa, Lady Stuart Francois Rene de ChateaubriandMoïsePrint: Book


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