Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Rousseau

 

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1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never...Francis Place Jean-Jacques RousseauPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am stru...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this...Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.'Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped i...Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauJulie: ou Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.'Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauJulie: ou Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849"The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme ...Anne Lister Jean Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1700-1799" reading Rousseau to my Sally."Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques RousseauUnknown
1700-1799" From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life."Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques RousseauUnknown
1700-1799" From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally.Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques RousseauUnknown
1900-1945'[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav...Jack Ashley Jean Jacques RousseauPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson discusses second annotator of 1791 copy of Rousseau, A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principle...H. B. L. Webb Jean-Jacques RousseauA Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principles of Politic LawPrint: Book
1700-1799'she thinks Rousseau "the most dangerous writer I ever read", his work "of so bad tendency that, after a few trials, I...Elizabeth Carter Jean Jacques RousseauworksPrint: Book
1700-1799'the book that prompted [Mary Wollstonecraft's] fullest comment was Rousseau's "Emile". It was bound to appeal to her;...Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1700-1799'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a ...Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meanin...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ...Lawrence Durrell Jean Jacques Rousseau[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of lit...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauDu Contrat SocialPrint: Book
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'...he proclaimed himself a disciple of Rousseau. But he can hardly have followed the teaching of "Emile" very closely...Jeans-Jaques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1700-1799'I made acquaintance yesterday with the famous poet Rousseau, who lives here [Vienna] under the peculiar protection of...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Jean-Baptiste RousseauodesUnknown
1800-1849'I return the first two volumes of Julia with many thanks - It seems to me, that the most proper way of testifying my ...Jane Bailie Welsh Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!'Jane Bailie Welsh Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1700-1799'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published...James Lackington Jean-Jacques RousseauThoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva, selected from his writings by an Anonymous EditorPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de Reveries du promeneur solitairePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauEmile; ou de l'education
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean-Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitairePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics to indicate PB Shelley's hand] 'In the evening I walk alone a long way by the lake. Read Julie all day [end i...Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitairePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitairePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitairePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the b...Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitairePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing April 18, 1779 'I do not know whether you will view this in the same light, but I think it is the...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jean Jacques RousseauEliosaPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school , or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mar...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jean Jacques Rousseau[?Emile]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read the letters of Emile'.Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauEmile, ou l'EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'.Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauEmile, ou l'EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile'Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauEmile, ou l'EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and Julie'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Julie - S reads Homer'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitairePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Rousseau's letters.'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques Rousseau[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Rousseau's letters'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques Rousseau[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraf...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraf...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [......Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les hommesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.'Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. ...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jany. 30th. Read Rousseau sur Les Arts & Les Sciences -- a piece of most extraordinary Prejudice and envious ...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscours qui a remporte le prix a l'Academie de Dijon, en l'annee 1750: ... si le retablissement des sciences et des arts a contribue a epurer les moeursPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'[Tuesday June [...] 5th. [...] Read Werther and begin Emile de Rousseau.' [also records reading latter text on 7, ...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Julie'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Emile'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauEmile, ou l'EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauEmile, ou l'EducationPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock...Virginia Woolf Jean-Jacques RousseauunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Jean-Jacques RousseauPrint: Book
1700-1799'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ...Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1700-1799'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ...Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ...Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1700-1799'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated wr...James Boswell Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1700-1799'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated wr...James Boswell Jean Jacques RousseauDiscourse on InequalityPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean Jacques RousseauLa Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean Jacques RousseauPrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean Jacques RousseauPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. September 1792: 'I ought to be studying Euclid — (the Devil take th...Robert Southey RousseauunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'Whether or not man has the stain of original sin I leave to th...Robert Southey Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July - 6 August 1793: 'I have just met with a passage in Rousseau whic...Robert Southey Jean Jacques RousseauConfessions, Book 12Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6-8 November 1793: 'Were men what they ought to be — Rousseau would be ...Robert Southey Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Do you know Rousseaus Levite of Ephraim? if not ...Robert Southey Jean Jacques RousseauLa Lévite d’Ephraim Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 24 September 1810: 'I am in the middle of [Rouss...Harriet Countess Granville Jean Jacques RousseauEmile (vol. 1)Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I kn...Elizabeth Carter Jean-Jacques Rousseau'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile'Print: Unknown

 

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