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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Southey had certainly read Dubartas by 2 March 1815 ... 'Robert Southey Guillaume de Saluste DubartasDubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Pa...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: A poem on the verso of the title page, though not entirely legible, appears to be related to the text. It takes the form of 8 lines, 4 rhyming couplets, beg...B.B. Preston Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant,La femme docteur ou la theologie tombee en quenoui...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Rossi [ed. notes that this perhaps...George Gordon Lord Byron Guiseppe BossiDel Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinion...Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Gustav Fechner[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Flaubert when he was around 15 or 16 and] 'He afterwards admitted that his favourite character in fiction was Emma Bovary.'Alfred Hitchcock Gustav FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.'John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have just made my will and am reading Aimard's novels.'Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave Aimardunidentified novelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834: 'I heard of poor Drounieau's case in the Papers. I have read none of his verses, but was ...Robert Browning Gustave DrounieauResigneePrint: Book
1850-1899'I find I have no time for reading except times of fatigue when I wish merely to refresh myself. O − and I read over again for this purpose − Flaubert?s "Ten...Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave Flaubert La Tentation de Saint Antoine.Print: Book
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1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Gustave Flaubert Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: " ... [By the end of his life Henry James] had read Flaubert's general correspondence with the close attention of a...Henry James Gustave FlaubertcorrespondencePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Gustave Flaubert Print: Book
1900-1945'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the French, found its way into "To the North". In 1932 sh...Elizabeth Bowen Gustave FlaubertL'Education SentimentalePrint: 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 Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.'Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chiselled, severe; has read: was reading Goldoni he said....Walter Sickert Gustave FlaubertlettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my craft in the most fierce conditions. Really reading F...Virginia Woolf Gustave FlaubertlettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Gustave FlaubertL'Education SentimentalePrint: Book


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