Leighton Library has 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" by Madeleine de Scudéry

Added by Leighton Library at 07:03 on 02 June 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" (New conversations on various topics) by French author Madeleine de Scudéry (known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry) who died #OnThisDay 2 June 1701. This text offered the rhetoric of salon conversation and model...

Leighton Library has 1776 edition of "Sylva: a discourse of forest-trees together with a historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves" by John Evelyn

Added by Leighton Library at 06:33 on 31 May 2025

#OnThisDay 31 May 1669 famed English diarist Samuel Pepys recorded his final diary entry. Writer, gardener and diarist John Evelyn was a contemporary of Pepys, but Evelyn’s diaries, or memoirs, were not published until later. The Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of his "Sylva: a discourse of fore...

Leighton Library has 1772-1773 editions of "Oeuvres de Monsieur de Voltaire" by Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

Added by Leighton Library at 07:05 on 30 May 2025

The Leighton Library has 1772-1773 editions of "Oeuvres de Monsieur de Voltaire," Voltaire being the nom de plume of French Enlightenment author, historian, and philosopher François-Marie Arouet, who died #OnThisDay 30 May 1778. He was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially suc...