Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: George Sand

 

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1700-1799'[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Beg...William Wordsworth George SandysRelation 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 AdjoyningPrint: 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 SandLa Mare au DiablePrint: 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 SandLes maitres SonneursPrint: 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 SandunknownPrint: 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
1850-1899Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio...Beatrice Webb George SandHistoire de ma viePrint: 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 SandysA 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 SandysA Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610Print: 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 SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I read recently, by the way ... [Geor...Henry James George SandMemoirsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] George SandLucrezia FlorianiPrint: 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 SandConsueloPrint: 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 SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834: 'Madame Dudevant has accomplished some...Robert Browning George SandLelia (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 SandComtesse 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 SandConsueloPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal...Elizabeth Barrett George SandunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: '"Leila" [...] made me blush in my solitude to the end...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLeilaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLeilaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ...Elizabeth Barrett George SandJacquesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ...Elizabeth Barrett George SandIndianaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: '"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] ...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLes Maitres MosaistesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: '"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] ...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLes sept cordes de la lyrePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937: 'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want any...Virginia Woolf George SandMemoires (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 SandunknownPrint: 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 SandFrancois le ChampiPrint: 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 SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read Mademoiselle Merquem? I have just finished it ..'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandMademoiselle MerquemPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 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 SandElle et LuiPrint: 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 SandJeannePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; ...Elizabeth Barrett George SandRose et BlanchePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1845: 'Have you seen the "Compagnon du tour de France" by George...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLe Compagnon du Tour de FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'There lies Consuelo -- done with! 'I sh...Robert Browning George SandConsueloPrint: 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 SandunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Nanon...'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandNanonPrint: 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
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873): 'Sept. 5th. [...] Bauer-Sierre. Returned through Domo d'Ossola over the Simpl...Alfred and Emily TennysonGeorge SandLeliaPrint: 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 SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "Le peche de M. Antoine", diluted and romantic; not good.'John Ruskin George SandLe peche de M. AntoinePrint: 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 SandLe peche de M. AntoinePrint: 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 SandFrancois le ChampiPrint: 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 SandMademoiselle de MerquemPrint: Book
1850-1899'At George Sand's "Marquise de Villemer", in evening, and enjoyed it.'John Ruskin George SandMarquise de VillemerPrint: 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 SandTillage of the Soil, ThePrint: 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 SandConsueloPrint: 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 SandDevil's Pool, ThePrint: 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 SandCountess of Rudolfstadt, ThePrint: Book

 

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