'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Letters; Hume's "History of England"; Hooke's "Roman History"; and Conyers Middleton's "Life of Cicero" ... She also ... studied music theory in Diderot's treatise ...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book
'But my dear, what a book! I am ashamed of it! I have read it right through and because I would not conceal from you the worse actions of my life, I send it to you, to show what a wicked book has engrossed your chaste wife these last two days. But is you, my dear, who have caused this vulgarity, for if I had not sought your amusement, I should not have amused myself with such an improper book.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Boscawen Print: Book
'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905:
'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only exist in the 19th century. He is a timid egoistic maniac [...] He has however hundreds of books in horrible print & binding -- I found some Diderot among them, which I had not read -- wonderful but quite mad.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf Print: Book
'I have received the Paradox; I am thinking, I can make something of it, but must first be better.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
