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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the supposition of selflove being the motive of all our actions. ...Thomas Carlyle Francois VI, Duc de La RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book
1700-1799'She began Candide but "threw it aside, and nothing, I believe, will tempt me ever to look into it again."'Elizabeth Carter Francois-Marie VoltaireCandidePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is years since I have read "Candide" of course in French. I must tell you I have been immensely pleased by the particular quality of this translation.'
[Henc...		Joseph Conrad François-Marie Arouet VoltaireCandidePrint: Book
1900-1945'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact...Clive Staples Lewis François-Marie Arouet VoltaireContes Choisis. Preface de Gustave LansonPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'.Virginia Woolf Francois-Rene Vicomte de ChateaubriandunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'Mary Shelley Francois-Rene de ChateaubriandAtala; ou les amours de deux sauvagesPrint: Book
1850-1899'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'Mary Augusta Ward François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand Print: Book
1800-1849'Clare reads the memoir of Madme Ma[n]son aloud to us'Claire Clairmont Francoise Clarisse MansonM?moires de Madame Manson, explicatifs de sa condu...Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752: 'Did I ever tell you I was reading Madame de Maintenon's Letters? [...] She seems to have been both a great and...Catherine Talbot Françoise d'Aubigné de MaintenonLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849[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 Francoise de GraffignyLettres d'une Peruvienne
1850-1899'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f...Thomas Jones Frank Buckland Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Frank Hardie, 11 October 1933: 'Many thanks for your letter and for the copy of your article which I had already read with great interest. I think we ...Leonard Woolf Frank Hardie'Youth, Socialism and Peace'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Do you want Frank Harris? If so, I think I could bring him into the fold. . . . His last book "The Bomb" (which is a masterly thing) is published by Long (!) who gave ...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisBomb, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Frank Harris] has two or three books unpublished; including one on Shakespeare which is probably the most penetrating book on Shakespeare ever written.' Arnold Bennett Frank Harris Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Orage has sent me your communication as to Frank Harris. Naturally I was the reviewer. Harris was much moved by the review, & came down to see me. He is certainly one...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisThe BombPrint: Book
1900-1945'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play again. I cannot expertly criticize the critical book b...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisShakespeare and his LoveManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play again. I cannot expertly criticize the critical book b...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisThe Man ShakespeareManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I got your book & letter this morning, & another letter on Friday. To my regret I have already swallowed the book, & as we go to Switzerland tomorrow . . . I write at o...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisUnpath'd WatersPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Frank Harris] has written a book drawing the character of Shakespeare from the plays. Part of it has been privately printed, & it seems to me the most remarkable exe...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisThe Man ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impuls...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisOscar Wilde: His Life and ConfessionsPrint: Book


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