the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Moliere  : Le Misanthrope

Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal drowse & cdn't fix on that or anything.'

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

Moliere  : 

'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, "a dreary book"'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

Moliere  : plays

'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays twice and Voltaire's works once.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford      Print: Book

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