√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | '[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Beg... | William Wordsworth | George Sandys | Relation of a Journey Begun 1610. Foure Bookes. Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of AEgypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy and Ilands Adjoyning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some... | Caroline Clive | George Sand | La Mare au Diable | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "If I were in the vein, I think I should exhort you above all to read George Sand, whose country stories seem to me pe... | Leslie Stephen | George Sand | Les maitres Sonneurs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i... | Leslie Stephen | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | George (Amantine Lucille Aurore) Sand (Dupin) | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | George Sand | Histoire de ma vie | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery | George Sandys | A relation of a journey begun Anno Dom. 1610. Foure bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish empire, of AEGYPT, [etc] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery | George Sandys | A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggli... | Maud du Puy | George Sand | La Petite Fadette | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I read recently, by the way ... [Geor... | Henry James | George Sand | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Sand | Lucrezia Floriani | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (e... | Charlotte Bronte | George Sand | Consuelo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmit... | Albert Battiscombe | George Sand | La Petite Fadette | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834:
'Madame Dudevant has accomplished some... | Robert Browning | George Sand | Lelia (chapter VIII) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the "Comtesse de Rudolstadt" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up f... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Comtesse de Rudolstadt | |
| 1850-1899 | ?By the way, dear, I must send you "Consuelo"; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Consuelo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842:
'"Leila" [...] made me blush in my solitude to the end... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Leila | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Leila | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Jacques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Indiana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Les Maitres Mosaistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Les sept cordes de la lyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937:
'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want any... | Virginia Woolf | George Sand | Memoires (vol 5) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have gone in for a course of George Sand with immense delight and good results to health, sprits and poor bemuddled... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, please read, Francois le Champi by George Sand; it is like a dream of goodness and virtue and gentle heroism.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Francois le Champi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have the whole of her novels before me. Even La Petite Fadette, for as long as it was in the house, I had not read.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | La Petite Fadette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read Mademoiselle Merquem? I have just finished it ..' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Mademoiselle Merquem | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Readi... | Virginia Woolf | George Sand | Elle et Lui | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1845:
'Read George Sand's "Jeanne". It is full of beauty, of p... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Jeanne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Rose et Blanche | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1845:
'Have you seen the "Compagnon du tour de France" by George... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Le Compagnon du Tour de France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'There lies Consuelo -- done with!
'I sh... | Robert Browning | George Sand | Consuelo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading George Sand's and Flaubert's letters. Her warmth, geniality, tolerance compared to his anxiety, narrowness, f... | Antonia White | George Sand | [letters to and from Flaubert] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I cannot tell how I feel, who can ever? I feel like a person in a novel of George Sand’s; I feel a desire to go out... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Nanon...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Nanon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | George Sand [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | George Sand [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873):
'Sept. 5th. [...] Bauer-Sierre. Returned through Domo d'Ossola over the Simpl... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | George Sand | Lelia | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "La Petite Fadette" all day, and able to think of nothing else. Nothing learned today but the finish and pass... | John Ruskin | George Sand | La Petite Fadette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Le peche de M. Antoine", diluted and romantic; not good.' | John Ruskin | George Sand | Le peche de M. Antoine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the "Peche" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it... | John Ruskin | George Sand | Le peche de M. Antoine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Francois le Champi" all day to my mother; a beautiful tale. These three women, Madeline, Fanchon Fadette and... | John Ruskin | George Sand | Francois le Champi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's "Madamoiselle de Merquem", and listening to noise... | John Ruskin | George Sand | Mademoiselle de Merquem | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At George Sand's "Marquise de Villemer", in evening, and enjoyed it.' | John Ruskin | George Sand | Marquise de Villemer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | Celia Burrow | George Sand | Tillage of the Soil, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | Howard R. Smith | George Sand | Consuelo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | Charles Stansfield | George Sand | Devil's Pool, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | Florence E. Reynolds | George Sand | Countess of Rudolfstadt, The | Print: Book |