√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Henri Balzac | La Recherche de L'Absolu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Henri Balzac | Eugenie Grandet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Henri Balzac | Modeste Mignon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Honore de Balzac | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.' | Arnold Bennett | Honore de Balzac | | 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 | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Honore de Balzac | The Human Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Honore de Balzac | Eugenie Grandet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him ... | Arnold Bennett | Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee." | Henry James | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Honore de Balzac | The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Honore de Balzac | Un Roman d'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Honore de Balzac | Lettres a l'Etrangere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini... | George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Honore de Balzac | Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 30th March,
Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players ... | Gerald Moore | Honore de Balzac | La Peau de Chagrin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a... | Sydney Smith | Honore de Balzac | Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a... | Sydney Smith | Honore de Balzac | La Messe de l'Athee | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Honore de Balzac | Contes Drolatiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839:
'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one... | Robert Browning | Honore de Balzac | Beatrix ou les Amours Forces | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839:
'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one... | Euphrasia Fanny Haworth | Honore de Balzac | "Scenes" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 December 1842:
'I sent Pere Goriot [...] because it is my belief that... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 September 1844:
'I read the preface to "Le Lis" & was delighted by it ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le Lys dans la Vallee (including Preface) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 September 1844:
'The first book of Balzac's I ever read, disgusted me... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La Vieille Fille | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any inf... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La Torpille | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844:
'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Honore de Balzac | Une tenebreuse affaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844:
'I have just finished the "Chouans." Of a certain powe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le dernier Chouan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844:
'I have just finished the "Chouans". Of a certain powe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | David Sechard, volume 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847:
'Robert is a warm admirer of Balzac & has read... | Robert Browning | Honore de Balzac | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'. | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845:
'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Modeste Mignon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845:
'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter... | Mary Russell Mitford | Honore de Balzac | Modeste Mignon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845:
'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845:
'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La vieille fille | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 March 1845:
'I am in the midst of "La Femme superieure." [sic] The tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La Femme superieur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1845:
'I have found [...] the continuation of David Sichard [novel... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Esther, ou les Amours d'un vieux banquier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845:
'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Les Paysans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846:
'Any more news of Balzac? "Les petits maneges" I have re... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Les Petits Menages d'une Femme verteuse | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850:
'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to ... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Honore de Balzac | Le Cousin Pons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901:
'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refus... | Leonard Woolf | Honore De Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 8 April 1902:
'I was glad to hear you had really read it [Le Pere Goriot] & I agr... | Lytton Strachey | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Honore de Balzac | Illusions perdues | 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 | Honore de Balzac | [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 | Honore de Balzac | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot a... | Alfred Tennyson | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot a... | Alfred Tennyson | Honore de Balzac | Eugenie Grandet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded... | Zoe Procter | Honoré de Balzac | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri... | Oscar Wilde | Honore de Balzac | Lost Illusions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri... | Oscar Wilde | Honore de Balzac | A Harlot High and Low | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Honore de Balzac | Wild Ass's Skin, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Mary Robson | Honore de Balzac | Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Rosamund Wallis | Honore de Balzac | Christ in Flanders | Print: Book |