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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
 
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed through the workhouse; read the pestilent literature of ...anon Jean de La Fontaine[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... a great d...Mountstuart Elphinstone Jean de La Fontaine[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue 30. X. 34.
    Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.

...		Victor Alexander Jean de La FontaineLes Animaux malades de la pestePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jean de ThevenotThe Travels of Monsieur de ThevenotPrint: Book
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean de La Bruyere Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Jean Fran?ois de Galaup La P?rouse[narratives of voyages]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Georgel and must say I have seldom read a more stupid book. The first volume in which he relates what he had seen and observed himself is well enough, but th...Sydney Smith Jean Francois GeorgelM?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements d...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read the first and second volumes of the Abbe Georgel's Memoirs. You will suppose, from this advice, that there is something improper in the third and...Sydney Smith Jean Francois GeorgelM?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements d...Print: Book
1800-1849'E- being called out for a few hours in the morning I attempted to amuse myself with Marmontel's Tales- it was but an attempt. For I hurried thro' them 'quite upon thorns...William Upcott Jean Francois MarmontelMoral TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'.Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelContes morauxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelContes MoreauxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelContes morauxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'.Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelLes IncasPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne'Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelLes IncasPrint: Book
1800-1849'work in the evening - & read Les Incas'Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelLes IncasPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 March 1842: 'I [italics]have[end italics] read Marmontel's memoirs .. & a most amusing book it is'.Elizabeth Barrett Jean Francois MarmontelMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday August [...] 19th. [...] Read Le Distrait by Regnier [sic].'Claire Clairmont Jean Francois RegnardLe DistraitPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any information, such as you ask for [...] As to Casimir ...Elizabeth Barrett Jean Francois Casimir DelavignepoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 31 March 1846:] 'I received the number of the Record you sent and despatched it forwards to Mr Young &c. am I right? I read D'Aubign...Charlotte Bronte Jean Henri Merle D'Aubigne"Letter"Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1829: 'I meant to have taken with me today the following extract from the learned Abbe Barthelemi's introduction to his "Voyage ...Elizabeth Barrett Jean Jacques BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grece (introduction...Print: Book


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