'[Gwen Raverat's father] was disgusted by Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir" when I lent it to him; though I am still surprised that he did not appreciate the romantic fire which lies beneath Julien Sorel's somewhat unscrupulous methods of getting on in the world'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Darwin Print: Book
Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
Henry James to Alice James, 8 November (letter begun 7 November) 1869: "I have of course no company but my own [in Rome], but in the intervals of sightseeing find a rare satisfaction in the long-denied perusal of a book. I have been reading Stendhal -- a capital observer and a good deal of a thinker. He really knows Italy."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847:
'Robert is a warm admirer of Balzac & has read most of his books [...] we read together the
other day the "Rouge et Noir", that powerful book of Stendhal's ([Marie Henri] Bayle [sic]) &
he thought it very striking, & observed, .. what I had thought from the first again & again, ..
that it was exactly like Balzac [italics]in the raw[end italics] .. in the material, .. &
undevelopped [sic] conception. What a book it is really,only so full of pain & bitterness, & the
gall of iniquity!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All I think a little posed & twisted by illness & [John Middleton] Murry; but agonised, & at moments that direct flick at the thing seen which was her gift.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'I must beg you to order & read "Le rouge et le noir" by a M. de Stendhal .. a "nom de guerre" I fancy. I wish I knew the names of any other books written by him. This, which I shd. not dare to name to a person in the world except you, so dark & deep is the colouring, is very striking & powerful & full of deep significance [...] It is, as to simple power, a first-class book according to my impression, -- though painful & noxious in many ways. But it is a book for you to read at all risks -- you must certainly read it for the power's sake. It has ridden me like an incubus for several days.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'It is now about time that Tertia read "La Chartreuse de Parme". Maguerite has just read it.
[. . .]
I have subscribed to the M[anchester] Guardian, & it is a great comfort to me.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
