'[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Begun 1610] in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have got Macaulay and Layard, and the "Monasteries of the Levant," and other big books, but I want some moderately moral French novel, or some very amusing two and sixpence or five-shilling English book to keep the thing going. Such a book as "La Mare au Diable", or "La Chasse au Roman," would be the thing, or Murray's "Life of Conde", or his "Memoirs of a Missionary." Can you kindly recommend some?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Clive Print: Book
"If I were in the vein, I think I should exhort you above all to read George Sand, whose country stories seem to me perfect & have a certain affinity to yours. The last I read was the [Les] Maitres Sonneurs wh... I commend to you as wellnigh perfect. You could do something of the kind, though I won't flatter you by saying that I think you could equal her in her own line - I don't think anyone could. But the harmony & grace even if strictly inimitable are good to aim at."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book
'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criticism is correct. I do think they are as a rule prurient & indecent & that they treat love affairs a good deal too much from the point of view of the whore and the whoremonger. They are very clever and very artistic; but I don?t think delicate either in the sense of art or morals? The books are put together with great skill to produce a given effect; but the effect is apt to border on the nasty & they are too anxious to keep everything in due harmony to give proper contrasts & variety of real life.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book
'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's Sybil, Mary Barton, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree, Tennyson's The Princess, Longfellow, Whitman, Burns, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, George Sand, the Brontes, Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Crawfurd Print: Book
Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as John Stuart Mill's Autobiography, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, George Sand's Histoire de ma vie, and Wordsworth's Prelude ..."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Beatrice Webb Print: Book
"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Government of the Turks.
"'Rivers used to read to me in Montaigne's Plays [Essays] and Moll Neville in the Fairy Queen.
"'I sat and read much in the Turkish History and Chaucer.
"'The 12th and 13th I spent most of the time in playing Glecko and hearing Moll Neville read the Arcadia.'"
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Print: Book
"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Government of the Turks.
"'Rivers used to read to me in Montaigne's Plays [Essays] and Moll Neville in the Fairy Queen.
"'I sat and read much in the Turkish History and Chaucer.
"'The 12th and 13th I spent most of the time in playing Glecko and hearing Moll Neville read the Arcadia.'"
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Print: Book
'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; battering her way with pride and tenacity through "La Petite Fadette"... But with all her respect for education...learning was never her strong point'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maud du Puy Print: Unknown
Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I read recently, by the way ... [George Sand's] Memoirs a compact little work in ten volumes. It's all charming (if you are not too particular about the exact truth) but especially the two 1st volumes, containing a series of letters from her father, written during Napoleon's campaigns."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (even "Consuelo", which is the best, of the best that I have read, appears to me to couple strange extravagance with wondrous excellence), yet she has a grasp of mind which, if I cannot fully comprehend, I can very deeply respect: she is sagacious and profound; Miss Austen is only shrewd and observant.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book
'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmitz "History of Greece", it all helps to pass away the time.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book
Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834:
'Madame Dudevant has accomplished something it seems -- a certain "Jacques" [...] I read an
analysis of her's of the mental constitution of a gambler, from Lelia [...] a much truer
exposition may be found in "The young Duke" by young D'Israeli [goes on to comment further
upon latter novel].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning Print: Book
?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the "Comtesse de Rudolstadt" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up from the book.?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson
?By the way, dear, I must send you "Consuelo"; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a book that that could divert me, when I thought myself on the very edge of the grave, from the work that I so much desired, and was yet unable to do, and from other thoughts both sweet and sorrowful, should somewhat support and amuse you under all the hard things that may be coming upon you. If it is to be had in Edinburgh you shall have it, dear, even before this letter.?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...]
I was curious beyond the patience of my Eve-ship, & besides grew so interested in France &
the French through my long apprentice ship to the old Memoirs that I felt pricked to the heart
to know all about the posterity of my heroes & heroines. And besides I live out of the world
altogether, & am lonely enough & old enough & sad enough & experienced enough in every
sort of good & bad reading, not to be hurt personally by a French superfluity of bad [...]
[George Sand] is eloquent as a fallen angel [...] Then there is Eugene Sue, & Frederic Soulie,
& De Queile .. why the whole literature looks like a conflagration -- & my whole being aches
with the sight of it [...] Full indeed of power & caprice & extravagance is this new French
literature [...] The want is, of fixed principle [...] Now tell me, what you think? That it is very
naughty of me to read naughty books -- or that you have done the same?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842:
'"Leila" [...] made me blush in my solitude to the ends of my fingers -- blush three blushes in
one .. for [italics]Her[end italics] who could be so shameless -- for her sex, whose purity she
so disgraced -- & for myself in particular, who cd hold such a book for five minutes while a
coal-fire burnt within reach of the other.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for
language-color & soul-slime & one which I could not read through for its vileness myself, .. I
sent this Jacques, which seemed to me to stink less in the [italics]phrase[end italics], altho'
the bearing & countenance & general moral tone are identically bad [...] Indiana, less revolting
as a whole leans alike & with the bent of the author's peculiar womanhood, to the sensual &
physical -- and yet that work does appear to me very brilliant & powerful, & eloquent beyond
praising.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for
language-color & soul-slime & one which I could not read through for its vileness myself, .. I
sent this Jacques, which seemed to me to stink less in the [italics]phrase[end italics], altho'
the bearing & countenance & general moral tone are identically bad [...] Indiana, less revolting
as a whole leans alike & with the bent of the author's peculiar womanhood, to the sensual &
physical -- and yet that work does appear to me very brilliant & powerful, & eloquent beyond
praising.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for
language-color & soul-slime & one which I could not read through for its vileness myself, .. I
sent this Jacques, which seemed to me to stink less in the [italics]phrase[end italics], altho'
the bearing & countenance & general moral tone are identically bad [...] Indiana, less revolting
as a whole leans alike & with the bent of the author's peculiar womanhood, to the sensual &
physical -- and yet that work does appear to me very brilliant & powerful, & eloquent beyond
praising.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] answer for [to friend seeking advice on
choosing French fiction to read] -- it is perfectly pure, & very beautiful; and so also is "Les sept
chords du lyre" -- a prose poem which delighted me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] answer for [to friend seeking advice on
choosing French fiction to read] -- it is perfectly pure, & very beautiful; and so also is "Les sept
chords du lyre [sic]" -- a prose poem which delighted me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937:
'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want anything so ecstatic, but broad and
mellow and satisfactory, try the Memoires of George Sand. 10 little volumes; I'm in the 5th, and
find it absorbing'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
'I have gone in for a course of George Sand with immense delight and good results to health, sprits and poor bemuddled brains.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
'Read, please read, Francois le Champi by George Sand; it is like a dream of goodness and virtue and gentle heroism.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
'I have the whole of her novels before me. Even La Petite Fadette, for as long as it was in the house, I had not read.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
'Have you read Mademoiselle Merquem? I have just finished it ..'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Reading Elle et Lui, a very good best seller [by George Sand]. Cant stop reading.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1845:
'Read George Sand's "Jeanne". It is full of beauty, of profound beauty & significance, .. & is pure besides [...] though the heroine is somewhat too divinely idiotic, -- of a stupidity, a little too gross. And yet I am scarcely sure now, .. although I felt so when I was reading the book -- it is a noble & singular conception, & gives proof of what may be called an heroic imagination.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- it is of a higher order. Bernard's most magnificent idea of virtue is what you & I shd. call expediency -- now is'nt it? Though I was delighted with "Un homme Serieux," -- & also with "Le paravent," .. the "Aventure d'un magistrat," for instance, is in the latter, to illustrate my opinion. Did you ever read a more disgusting series of small cheateries? It almost spoilt my pleasure in the power. I had a reaction & grew "moral" [...] the "stink in one's nostrils" [Job 4:10] of all that falsehood & depravity, was so immense.' And not much better in its effect on me, was the story of the "Rose blanche" [sic] (though the pretty hoyden captivated me) where no man of honour [italics]could[end italics] have acted as the hero does'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1845:
'Have you seen the "Compagnon du tour de France" by George Sand? I sent for it, with a fancy that it might be a traveller's book .. just [italics]that[end italics] -- & it is one of her best romances, & full of curious interest of different kinds.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'There lies Consuelo -- done with!
'I shall tell you frankly that it strikes [italics]me[end italics] as precisely what in conventional language with the customary silliness is styled a [italics]woman's[end italics]-book, in its merits & defects [goes on to comment extensively on text]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning Print: Book
'Reading George Sand's and Flaubert's letters. Her warmth, geniality, tolerance compared to his anxiety, narrowness, fear of life. They really cared for each other. She is like the man, he like the woman'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Print: Book
'I cannot tell how I feel, who can ever? I feel like a person in a novel of George Sands; I feel a desire to go out of the house, and begin life anew in the cool blue night. Never to come back here; never, never. Only to go on forever by sunny day and gray day, by bright night and foul, by highway and byway, town and hamlet, until somewhere by a roadside or in some clean inn, clean death opened his arms to me, and took me to his quiet heart forever.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
'I have finished Nanon...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing Print: Book
'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing Print: Book
From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873):
'Sept. 5th. [...] Bauer-Sierre. Returned through Domo d'Ossola over the Simplon. The coming over was a great disappointment. Thick mist the whole of the way except the first half-hour when we started from the Simplon Inn [...] During the evening we consoled ourselves by reading Lelia by George Sand'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Unknown
'Reading "La Petite Fadette" all day, and able to think of nothing else. Nothing learned today but the finish and passion of George Sand among French writers, and her sense of goodness among general thinkers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Reading "Le peche de M. Antoine", diluted and romantic; not good.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the "Peche" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it suits them; then Carpenter so angry at the blow of the cane and shouting at his work"
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Reading "Francois le Champi" all day to my mother; a beautiful tale. These three women, Madeline, Fanchon Fadette and la petite Marie, are enough to justify all Mrs Browning's love of George Sand.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'I hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's "Madamoiselle de Merquem", and listening to noise of marriage party.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'At George Sand's "Marquise de Villemer", in evening, and enjoyed it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passionate nature & of how the various subjects of her passion were first adored on a pedestal & then fell through successive states to one of severe criticism if not contempt. The apt epigram was quoted that "George Sand did not behave as a perfect Gentleman".
Readings as under from her work were then given, bringing out her love of country life & her considerable powers of descriptive writing, also the romantic cast of her tales.
From Tillage of the Soil Celia Burrow
Consuelo H.R. Smith
The Devil's Pool C.E. Stansfield
Countess of Rudolfstadt F.E. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow Print: Book
'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passionate nature & of how the various subjects of her passion were first adored on a pedestal & then fell through successive states to one of severe criticism if not contempt. The apt epigram was quoted that "George Sand did not behave as a perfect Gentleman".
Readings as under from her work were then given, bringing out her love of country life & her considerable powers of descriptive writing, also the romantic cast of her tales.
From Tillage of the Soil Celia Burrow
Consuelo H.R. Smith
The Devil's Pool C.E. Stansfield
Countess of Rudolfstadt F.E. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith Print: Book
'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passionate nature & of how the various subjects of her passion were first adored on a pedestal & then fell through successive states to one of severe criticism if not contempt. The apt epigram was quoted that "George Sand did not behave as a perfect Gentleman".
Readings as under from her work were then given, bringing out her love of country life & her considerable powers of descriptive writing, also the romantic cast of her tales.
From Tillage of the Soil Celia Burrow
Consuelo H.R. Smith
The Devil's Pool C.E. Stansfield
Countess of Rudolfstadt F.E. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Print: Book
'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passionate nature & of how the various subjects of her passion were first adored on a pedestal & then fell through successive states to one of severe criticism if not contempt. The apt epigram was quoted that "George Sand did not behave as a perfect Gentleman".
Readings as under from her work were then given, bringing out her love of country life & her considerable powers of descriptive writing, also the romantic cast of her tales.
From Tillage of the Soil Celia Burrow
Consuelo H.R. Smith
The Devil's Pool C.E. Stansfield
Countess of Rudolfstadt F.E. Reynolds'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence E. Reynolds Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to George Henry Lewes, 12 January 1848:
'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to
say that you would have rather written "Pride and Prejudice" or "Tom Jones," than any of the
Waverley Novels?
'I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice" till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book.
And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully
fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a
bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should
hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. These
observations will probably irritate you, but I shall run the risk.
'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works
which I admired throughout (even "Consuelo," which is the best, or the best that I have read,
appears to me to couple strange extravagance with wondrous excellence), yet she has a grasp
of mind which, if I cannot fully comprehend, I can very deeply respect: she is sagacious and
profound; Miss Austen is only shrewd and observant.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to George Henry Lewes, 12 January 1848:
'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to
say that you would have rather written "Pride and Prejudice" or "Tom Jones," than any of the
Waverley Novels?
'I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice" till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book.
And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully
fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a
bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should
hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. These
observations will probably irritate you, but I shall run the risk.
'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works
which I admired throughout (even "Consuelo," which is the best, or the best that I have read,
appears to me to couple strange extravagance with wondrous excellence), yet she has a grasp
of mind which, if I cannot fully comprehend, I can very deeply respect: she is sagacious and
profound; Miss Austen is only shrewd and observant.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 17 October 1850:
'Accept my thanks for some hours of pleasant reading. Balzac was for me quite a new author,
and in making his acquaintance, through the medium of "Modeste Mignon" and "Illusions
Perdues" you cannot doubt I have felt some interest.
At first I thought he was going to be painfully minute, and fearfully tedious; one grew
impatient of his long parade of detail [...] but by-and-by, I seemed to enter into the mystery
of his craft and to discover with delight where his force lay: is it not in the analysis of motive,
and in a subtle perception of the most obscure and secret workings of the mind? Still
admire Balzac as we may I think we do not like him. We rather feel towards him as
towards an uncongenial acquaintance who is for ever holding up, in strong light, our defects,
and who rarely draws forth our better qualities.
'Truly I like George Sand better. Fantastic, fanatical, unpractical enthusiast as she often is
[...] George Sand has a better nature than M. Balzac her brain is larger her heart warmer
than his. The "Lettres d'un Voyageur" are full of the writer's self, and I never felt so strongly
as in the perusal of this work that most of her very faults spring from the excess of her
good qualities [...] her mind is of that order which disastrous experience teaches without
weakening or too much disheartening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night
except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exactly how much I
cover and it wd. not be accurate to count by pages, as they vary so in size and in type.... Then
again why not get something in that 1/6 Dents edition with the lovely paper, say ... the shorter
tales of George Sand, - you can see the list.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
'Valentine'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Good Print: Book
