Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

 

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1800-1849'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of thi...Sarah Harriet Burney Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SevigneLetters of Madame de SevignePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters...'Sarah Harriet Burney Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SevigneLetters of Madame de SevignePrint: Book
1800-1849'I spent the whole afternoon reading some of Mde. de Sevigne's letters'Harriet Wynne Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Mde. de Sevigne until I was quite tired'.Harriet Wynne Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr...Sydney Smith Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'Mary Shelley Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SevigneLettresPrint: Book
1800-1849'of all the generations who have praised Madame de Sevigne, and commended her writings, I am certain no one has ever e...Charlotte Bury Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that...Mr Sharpe Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'The former [apparently a letter from Louisa Clinton, praising LS -or someone else? - extravagantly] discomposed me, t...Louisa, Lady Stuart Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1700-1799'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight...Susanna Arabella Thrale Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica...C. Elliott Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne[letter]Print: Unknown

 

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