√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | I 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 Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 Rousseau | Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 Rousseau | Confessions | Print: 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 Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.' | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: 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 Rousseau | Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.' | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise | Print: 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 Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " reading Rousseau to my Sally." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally. | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Unknown |
| 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 Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | H. 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 Rousseau | A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principles of Politic Law | Print: 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 Rousseau | works | Print: 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 Rousseau | Emile | Print: 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 Rousseau | Emile | Print: 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 Rousseau | Confessions | Print: 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 Rousseau | Du Contrat Social | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...he proclaimed himself a disciple of Rousseau. But he can hardly have followed the teaching of "Emile" very closely... | | Jeans-Jaques Rousseau | Emile | Print: 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 Rousseau | odes | Unknown |
| 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 Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!' | Jane Bailie Welsh | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: 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 Rousseau | Thoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva, selected from his writings by an Anonymous Editor | Print: 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 Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de Reveries du promeneur solitaire | Print: 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 Rousseau | Emile; 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 Rousseau | Julie, 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 Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: 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 Rousseau | Julie; ou, La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters' | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: 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 Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter 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 Rousseau | Eliosa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter 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 Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Julie' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Julie - S reads Homer' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: 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 Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: 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 |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: 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 Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: 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 Rousseau | Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les hommes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.' | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba till Bed time.' | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: 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 Rousseau | Discours 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 moeurs | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday June [...] 5th. [...] Read Werther and begin Emile de Rousseau.'
[also records reading latter text on 7, ... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Julie' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Emile' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 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 Rousseau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ... | | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ... | | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ... | | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: 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 Rousseau | Emile | Print: 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 Rousseau | Discourse on Inequality | Print: 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 Rousseau | La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: 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 Rousseau | | Print: 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 Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. September 1792: 'I ought to be studying Euclid — (the Devil take th... | Robert Southey | Rousseau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert 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 Rousseau | Emile | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July - 6 August 1793: 'I have just met with a passage in Rousseau whic... | Robert Southey | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Confessions, Book 12 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6-8 November 1793: 'Were men what they ought to be — Rousseau would be ... | Robert Southey | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Do you know Rousseaus Levite of Ephraim? if not ... | Robert Southey | Jean Jacques Rousseau | La Lévite d’Ephraim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 24 September 1810:
'I am in the middle of [Rouss... | Harriet Countess Granville | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile (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 |