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Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon : Memoires

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842: 'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memoires. They are most characteristically delightful -- yet I am only just now reading them -- & the Duc de St Simon's also. I have a sort of Memoir brain fever at the present season-- Don't you think so?'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Saint-Simon : Memoirs

Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant: writing: the walk; reading, Leeson, a detective, Saint Simon, Henry James' preface to P. of a Lady -- very clever, [word illegible] but one or two things I recognise: then Gide's Journal, again full of startling recollection -- things I cd have said myself.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Saint-Simon : Memoirs

Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shrew. Cymbeline. Maupassant. de Vigny. only scraps [the four French authors grouped by bracket in MS] St Simon. Gide. Library books: Powys Wells Lady Brooke. Prose. Dobree. Alice James.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon : Les Mémoires de Saint-Simon

'Thank you for the "Saint-Simon", which to my great joy arrived this morning. I finished the play the day before yesterday. Tonight I finish revising. Tomorrow I plunge into "Saint-Simon".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

 

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