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Jules Michelet

 

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Jules Michelet : Histoire de France

Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that Scott had; only Scott merely made superb ordinary people, & D. creates wonders, with very subtle brains, & fearful sufferings. Perhaps the likeness to Scott partly consists in the loose, free & easy, style of the translation. I am also reading Michelet, plodding through the dreary middle ages; & Fanny Kemble's Life. Yesterday in the train I read The Rape of the Lock, which seems to me "supreme" -- almost superhuman in its beauty & brilliancy -- you really can't believe such things are written down.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France

Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, & the only tolerable history.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France

Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations against Nessa [for issuing invitation to Igor and Helen Anrep] by reading Michelet'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France vol.15

Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards George Trevelyan; who has just been made Master of Trinity: whose history of England I began after tea (throwing aside Michelet vol.15) with a glorious sense of my own free & easiness in writing now) [...] I like outsiders better. Insiders write a colourless English. They are turned out by the University machine.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Jules Michelet : French Revolution

'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

  

Jules Michelet : French Revolution/Histoire de la Revolution francaise

'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution with much interest.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

  

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France

MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: "A fine, compact story; disfigured by a delight in the loathsome such as I have never known in any other great and grave writer. It amounts to monomania."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan      Print: Book

 

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