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

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Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : Paul and Virginia

'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited Fanny [Godwin] for a husband [...] [Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at two & goes to meet Shelley [...] Read Political Justice [...] Read Paul & Virginia -- in the Evening. I admire the descriptions [...] The Story is [...] in itself trifling & uninteresting -- the speeches and Characters are inflated and unnatural.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : Paul et Virginie

'Sunday October [...] 30th. [...] Read Paul & Virginia.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

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