Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Merimee Prosper

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Prosper Merimee		Print: Book
	1850-1899	Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."	Henry James	Prosper Merimee	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'[Merimee's] book has arrived yesterday. I have only begun reading it.' [letter to Venceslas-Victor Jacquemont]	Mary Shelley	Prosper Merimee	La Jacquerie	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	Prosper Merimee	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I do know the Mérimée story you speak of. It is "Tamango". A rather good piece of work. [...] I read it years ago.'	Joseph Conrad	Prosper Mérimée	Tamango	Print: Book