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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'[Tuesday June [...] 5th. [...] Read Werther and begin Emile de Rousseau.' [also records reading latter text on 7, 8, 9 June 1821]Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock [...] we are shaking & rattling through Lombardy to...Virginia Woolf Jean-Jacques RousseauunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Jean-Jacques Rousseau Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you m...Elizabeth Carter Jean-Jacques Rousseau'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement aga...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.'Emma Darwin Jean-Jaques RousseauThe Confessions of Jean-Jaques RousseauPrint: Book
1850-1899
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 Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Print: Book
1850-1899'O boy, I'm deep in Lanfry.'Robert Louis Stevenson Jean-Pierre LanfryHistoire de Napoleon 1erPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossibl...Robert Southey Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday [...] Oct. 9th. [...] I pack up [for family's departure from holiday home, following death of a child] & read the whole day Memoirs of Madame Campan.'Claire Clairmont Jeanne Louise Henriette CampanMemoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, re...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Jeanne Louise Henriette Genet CampanMémoiresPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first only. at present the politics of France puzzle me...Robert Southey Jeanne Marie Roland de la PlatiereAppel a L’Impartiale Postérité Print: Book
1800-1849'[Mark L.] Reed judges that W[ordsworth] and D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied extracts from the Life [of Lady Guion] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 29 Sept 1800...Wordsworth FamilyJeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Motte GuyonLife of Lady Guion, ThePrint: 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 Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont Print: Book
[Marginalia]: 8 leaves of ms notes, in ink, in French, have been bound in at the beginning of the volume. They consist of an introduction praising those who protect and e...Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson marquise de PompadourSuite d'estampes gravees par Madame la marquise de...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...he proclaimed himself a disciple of Rousseau. But he can hardly have followed the teaching of "Emile" very closely, since...'Jeans-Jaques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1900-1945'To King's funeral at noon [Alexander King-Clark, Knocker's brother-in-law, who had committed suicide]. R.I.P. he did his bit and I think it is for the best. Lunch at Wes...Guy Mainwaring Knocker Jeffery FarnolOur Admirable Betty: A RomancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American...Lloyd George Jeffrey FarnolThe Amateur GentlemanPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Madme Bodin nee Jenny Bastide is neither very pure nor at all powerful [...] "Stenia" did me to the dea...Elizabeth Barrett Jenny Bodin (nee Bastide)Stenia et l'abbe MauricePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never retu...George Gissing Jens Peter JacobsenNiels lyhnePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never retu...George Gissing Jens Peter JacobsenMarie GrubePrint: Book


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