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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Jean Jacques L'HermittePsychoneuroses of War, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830: 'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racine's plays [...] It is several years since I read t...Elizabeth Barrett and younger Moulton-Barrett brothersJean Jacques RacineplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830: 'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racine's plays [...] It is several years since I read t...Elizabeth Barrett Jean Jacques RacineplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849"The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme [...] Rousseau's confessions, volume and page, first...Anne Lister Jean Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1700-1799" reading Rousseau to my Sally."Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown
1700-1799" From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life."Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown
1700-1799" From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally.Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown
1900-1945'[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu...Jack Ashley Jean Jacques Rousseau Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 24 September 1810: 'I am in the middle of [Rousseau's] "Emile." I think parts of it excellent, and t...Harriet Countess Granville Jean Jacques RousseauEmile (vol. 1)Print: Book
1700-1799'she thinks Rousseau "the most dangerous writer I ever read", his work "of so bad tendency that, after a few trials, I have determined never to look into any thing he sho...Elizabeth Carter Jean Jacques RousseauworksPrint: Book
1700-1799'the book that prompted [Mary Wollstonecraft's] fullest comment was Rousseau's "Emile". It was bound to appeal to her; it was a treatise on education, a metaphysical essa...Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1700-1799'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a reason, that a genius will educate itself - however ...Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Jean Jacques Rousseau[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July - 6 August 1793: 'I have just met with a passage in Rousseau which expresses some of my religious opinions better tha...Robert Southey Jean Jacques RousseauConfessions, Book 12Print: Book
1800-1849'I return the first two volumes of Julia with many thanks - It seems to me, that the most proper way of testifying my gratitude to the amiable Jean Jacques for the pleasu...Jane Bailie Welsh Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!'Jane Bailie Welsh Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur ...Print: Book


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