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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'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'Mary Shelley Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' ArgensLettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosoph...
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'Mary Shelley Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' ArgensLettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosoph...Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868: 'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end italics]. He starts with premises open to much disc...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique LacordaireConferences de Notre Dame de ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...Thomas Carlyle Jean Baptiste Joseph DelambreAbrege d'astronomiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi - & Faublas'Mary Shelley Jean Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayLes Amours du Chevalier de FaublasPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Jean Charles de SismondiLitt?rature du midi de l'EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean Charles SismondiHistory of the Italian Republics in the Middle Age...Print: 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.] Jean Charles L?onard de SismondiHistory of the Italian RepublicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi[unknown - on Spain]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] Jean Charles L?onard de SismondiLitt?rature du midi de l'EuropePrint: Book
1900-1945One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The...Robert Stark Jean Charles Leonard de SismondiHistory of the Italian Republics in the Middle Age...Print: Book
1850-1899'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think I cannot better employ the hour of leisure, which n...Thomas Carlyle Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondiunknown historyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi'Mary and Percy ShelleyJean Charles Leonard Simonde de SismondiHistoire des republiques italiennes du moyen agePrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Sismondi'Mary Shelley Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de SismondiHistoire des republiques italiennes du moyen agePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'Mary Shelley Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de SismondiHistoire des Republiques Italiennes du moyen agePrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Livy & Winkhelmann aloud - read Dante - And Sismondi'Mary Shelley Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de SismondiHistoire des republiques italiennes du moyen agePrint: Book
1800-1849'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.'John Ruskin Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Staid in all day for cold, but sketched some figures from window, and heard some of Sismondi's "Italian Republics", and my day has been rather profitable.'John Ruskin Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
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[Marginalia]: pencil annotation at the end of the text of v.1 (ie p. 378): 'And this is given as the character of Louis the Fourteenth Pooh! P...! What a Prostitution of ...John Drummond Erskine Jean de La BruyereLes caracteres de Theophraste et de La Bruyere, av...Print: Book



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