Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Princess Caroline Princess of Wales

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading pers...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Princess Caroline Princess of Wales [verbal sketches of well known people]Manuscript: MS book
1800-1849'The Princess often read aloud. It was difficult to understand her germanised French, and still more, her composite En...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina Princess Royal of Prussia MEMOIRS OF FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Bareith, sister of Frederick the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales VoltaireCandidePrint: Book
1800-1849'She finished reading to me the rest of the papers and correspondence, which at present occupy so much of her thoughts'Princess Caroline Princess of Wales [papers and correspondence]Manuscript: Personal papers relating to her marriage, banishment, her supposed adultery and that of her husband, etc.
1800-1849'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Princess Charlotte LetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Anne Louise Germaine de Stael HolsteinPetits RomansPrint: Book
1800-1849'She reads a great deal, and buys all new books'Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Print: Book
1800-1849'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales George Gordon, Lord Byron'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte'Unknown
1800-1849'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Frances Burney, Madame d'ArblayWanderer, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book

 

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