Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never...Francis Place Jean-Jacques RousseauPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am stru...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson discusses second annotator of 1791 copy of Rousseau, A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principle...H. B. L. Webb Jean-Jacques RousseauA Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principles of Politic LawPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meanin...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of lit...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauDu Contrat SocialPrint: Book
1700-1799'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published...James Lackington Jean-Jacques RousseauThoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva, selected from his writings by an Anonymous EditorPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean-Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitairePrint: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraf...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraf...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [......Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les hommesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.'Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. ...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jany. 30th. Read Rousseau sur Les Arts & Les Sciences -- a piece of most extraordinary Prejudice and envious ...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscours qui a remporte le prix a l'Academie de Dijon, en l'annee 1750: ... si le retablissement des sciences et des arts a contribue a epurer les moeursPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'[Tuesday June [...] 5th. [...] Read Werther and begin Emile de Rousseau.' [also records reading latter text on 7, ...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...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...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Jean-Jacques RousseauPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I kn...Elizabeth Carter Jean-Jacques Rousseau'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile'Print: Unknown

 

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