A Curiosity: Dora Pejačević's Reading Diary 'My Book Record'

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"BOOKS I HAVE READ"
DORA PEJAČEVIĆ AS AN INDIVIDUAL READER

The composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) was born in Budapest, but she grew up in a family palace in Našice where she composed most of her compositions. The most important piece of her oeuvre is Symphony in F Sharp Minor for Full Orchestra Op.41 (1916/7; 1920). The first performance of the Symphony was in Dresden on February 1920, conducted by Edwin Lindner. Dora Pejačević had a great passion for books and reading, so she recorded all the books she was reading in her reading diary - My Book Record. My Book Record was a printed notebook which contains three parts: Books I have read, Books I wish to read and Books worth reading. The diary was a gift from her English governess, Miss Davison, to whom she owed her general education and knowledge of several languages, and who was Dora's companion on her many travels. Dora Pejačević was writing it between 1902 and 1921.

Authors by alphabetical order (born - died) nationality and occupation (number of works of the respective author Dora read)

Aanrud, Hans (1863-1953) Norwegian writer (1)
Abelard, Peter (1079-1142) French priest and philosopher (1)
Adler, Guido (1855-1941) Czech-Austrian musicologist and writer (1)
Alcoforado, Mariana (1640-1723) Portuguese nun (1)
Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321) Italian writer (1)
Altenberg, Peter / Richard Engländer (1859-1919) Austrian writer (2)
Arcibashev, Mikhail Petrovich (1878-1927) Russian writer (1)
Arnim, Bettina von, b. Elisabeth Brentano (1785-1859) German writer (2)
Assmus, Burghard (1855-1950) German writer (1)
Audoux, Marguerite (1863-1937) French writer (1)
Augustinus, Aurelius (354-430) Roman theologian (1)
Aurelius, Marcus (121-181) Roman emperor and philosopher (1)
Ball, Hugo (1886-1927), German poet (1)
Bang, Herman (1857-1912) Danish writer and journalist (2)
Barbusse, Henri (1873-1935) French writer and pacifist (2)
Barret- Browning, Elizabeth (1806-1861) English poet (1)
Browning, Robert (1812-1889) English writer (1)
Bekker, Paul (1882-1937) German music critic (1)
Benson, Edward Frederic (1867-1940) English writer (2)
Benson, Robert Hugh (1871-1914) English writer (1)
Bethge, Hans (1876-1946), German poet and writer (1)
Bjerre, Poul (1876-1964) Swedish psychiatrist (1)
Bölsche, Wilhelm (1861-1939) German writer and publicist (1)
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne (1627-1704) French theologian and bishop (2)
Brachvogel, Albert Emil (1824-1878) German writer (1)
Braun, Lily (1865-1916) German writer and socialist (2)
Buddha, Gotama (563 p.ne. - 483 BC) Indian thinker (1)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924) English writer (1)
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881) Scottish historian (1)
Carneri, Bartholomäus (1821-1909) Austrian writer and philosopher (1)
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart (1855-1927) German-English writer (2)
Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842) American theologian and preacher (1)
Chantepleure, Guy (1870-1951) French writer (2)
Claudel, Paul (1868-1955) French writer and diplomat (2)
Coppée, François (1842-1908) French writer (1)
Corelli, Marie (1855-1924) British writer (4)
Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) French writer (1)
Coulevain, Pierre de (1853-1927) French writer (4)
Craven, Pauline Marie (1808-1891) French writer (2)
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904) Russian writer (2)
Daab, Friedrich (1870-1935) German theologian (1)
Dahn, Felix (1834-1912) German writer and lawyer (3)
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) English biologist (1)
Darwin, Francis (1848-1925) English botanist (1)
Daudet, Alphonse (1840-1897) French writer (3)
Dehmel, Richard (1863-1920) German writer (1)
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) English writer (1)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821-1881) Russian writer (10)
Drews, Arthur (1865-1935) German philosophers (1)
Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von (1830-1916) Austrian writer (1)
Ebers, Georg Moritz (1837-1898) German Egyptologist and writer (2)
Eckermann, Johann Peter (1792-1854) German writer (1)
Eckhel, Hilaria Anna von (1873-1948) German-Austrian writer (1)
Eeden, Frederik van (1860-1932) Dutch writer and psychiatrist (2)
Eisner, Kurt (1867-1919) German journalist and politician (2)
Eliot, George / Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880) English writer (1)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American writer (4)
Epictetus (55-135) Greek philosophers (1)
Ernst Otto (1862-1926) German writer (1)
Feuchtersleben, Ernst (1806-1849) Austrian physician and writer (1)
Feuillet, Octave (1821-1890) French writer (2)
Florenz, Karl (1865-1939) German japanologist (1)
Foerster, Friedrich Wilhelm (1869-1966) German university professor of philosophy (1)
Fogazzaro, Antonio (1842-1911) Italian writer (1)
Forel, Auguste (1848-1931) Swiss psychiatrist (1)
Förster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth (1846-1935) German writer, Nietzsche's sister (2)
Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (1860-1929) English novelist (2)
France, Anatole / Jacques Anatole François Thibault (1844-1924) French writer (1)
Frenssen, Gustav (1863-1945) German writer (6)
Garbe, Richard (1857-1927) German Indologist (1)
Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872) French writer and journalist (1)
Geijerstam, Gustaf (1858-1909) Swedish writer (1)
Gertsen (Herzen), Alexander Ivanovich (1812-1870) Russian writer and thinker (1)
Girardin, Émile de (1806-1881) French journalist and politician (1)
Gjellerup, Karl Adolf (1857-1919) Danish writer (1)
Glyn, Elinor (1864-1943) British writer (2)
Gobineau, Arthur de (1816-1882) French writer (1)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832) German writer (8 )
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich (1809-1852) Russian writer (3)
Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich (1812-1891) Russian writer (1)
Gratry, Auguste Joseph Alphonse (1805-1872) French theologian (1)
Grba, Milovan (1881-1941) highschool teacher and politician from Croatia (1)
Grumbach, Salomon (1884-1952) a German Social Democratic politician and journalist (1)
Gulden, Erica H., writer of the drama Ach, ich armer Narre (1)
Gunter, Archibald Clavering (1847-1907) American writer (1)
Hebbel, Friedrich (1813-1863) German writer (1)
Haeckel, Ernst (1834-1919) a German zoologist and philosopher (1)
Haecker, Theodor (1879-1945) German writer (1)
Hamsun, Knut / Knud Pedersen (1859-1952) Norwegian writer (1)
Hardt, Ernst (1876-1947) German writer (2)
Harnack, Adolf (1851-1930) German theologian (1)
Harraden, Beatrice (1864-1936) English writer (1)
Hartleben, Otto Erich (1864-1905) German writer (1)
Hauptmann, Gerhart (1862-1946) German writer (6)
Haushofer, Max (1840-1907) German economist and writer (1)
Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904) Irish-Japanese writer (1)
Heloize (1101-1164) a French nun (1)
Herczeg, Ferenc (1863-1954) Hungarian writer (1)
Hesse, Hermann (1877-1962) German writer (4)
Heyking, Elisabeth von (1861-1925) German writer (2)
Heyse, Paul (1830-1914) German writer (2)
Hichens, Robert Smyte (1864-1950) English writer (1)
Hilty, Carl (1833-1909) Swiss philosopher, lawyer and writer (1)
Hofmannstahl, Hugo von (1874-1929) Austrian writer (2)
Hölderlin, Friedrich (1770-1843) German writer (1)
Hope, Anthony (1863-1933), English writer (1)
Hope, Laurence / Adela Florence Nicolson (1865-1904) English poet (1)
Housman, Laurence (1865-1959) English writer and illustrator (1)
Houssaye, Aresène (1815-1896) French writer (1)
Huggenberger, Alfred (1867-1960) Swiss writer (1)
Hume, David (1711-1776) Scottish philosophers (1)
Huneker, Jemes (1857-1921) American music critic (1)
Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe (1855-1897) Irish writer (2)
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895) English biologist and writer (1)
Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) Norwegian writer (9)
Jacobsen, Jens Peter (1847-1885) Danish writer (2)
János Arany (1817-1882) Hungarian writer (1)
Jatho, Carl (1851-1913) German Evangelical pastor (1)
Jensen, Johannes (1873-1950) Danish writer (1)
Jerome, Jerome Klapka (1859-1927) English writer (3)
Jerusalem, Wilhelm (1854-1923) Austrian philosophers (2)
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) German philosopher fi (3)
Kapp, Julius (1883-1962) German music biographer (4)
Kassner, Rudolf (1873-1959) Austrian writer (1)
Kautsky, Karl Johann (1854-1938) German-Czech Marxist and philosopher (1)
Keller, Gottfried (1819-1890) Swiss writer (1)
Keller, Otto (1875-1931) German music historian (1)
Keller, Helen (1880-1968) American activist and writer (1)
Kellermann, Bernhard (1879-1951) German writer (4)
Keppler, Paul Wilhelm von (1852-1926) German bishop and theologian (1)
Key, Ellen, (1849-1926) Swedish writer (7)
Kierkegaard, Søren (1813-1855) Danish philosopher (9)
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) English writer (1)
Klein, Abbé Felix (1862-1953) French writer (1)
Kolb, Annette (1870-1967) German writer and pacifist (1)
Kropotkin, Peter (1842-1921) Russian anarchist and writer (1)
Kraus, Karl (1874-1936) Austrian writer (6)
Lagerlöf, Selma (1858-1940) Swedish writer (2)
Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869) French writer and politician (1)
Langenscheidt, Paul / Erwin Rex (1860-1925) German writer (1)
Lasker-Schüler, Else (1869-1945) a German-Jewish writer (1)
Lauff, Josepf von (1855-1933) German writer (1)
Lavedan, Henri (1859-1940) French writer (1)
Leblanc, Georgette (1869-1941) French actress and writer (1)
Lehen, Edouard (1807-1867) French priest (1)
Liegler, Leopold (1882-1949) Austrian critic and writer (1)
Loti, Pierre / Pierre Loti (1850-1923) French writer (1)
Lux, Joseph August (1871-1947) Austrian writer and art historian (1)
Lyall, Edna / Ada Ellen Bayly (1857-1903) English novelist (2)
Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949) Belgian writer (10)
Maitland, Johan Alexander Fuller (1856-1936) British music critic (1)
Mann, Thomas (1875-1955) German writer (2)
Mathers, Helen Buckingham (1853-1920) English novelist (2)
Maurier, George Edward (1834-1896) French-English writer and cartoonist (1)
Merežkovski, Demetrius Sergejivič (1865-1941) Russian writer and thinker (1)
Méry, Joseph (1797-1866) French writer (1)
Meysenburg, Malwida Freiin von (1816-1903) German writer (1)
Michaelis, Karin (1872-1950) Danish writer and journalist (4)
Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673) French playwright (2)
Morgenstern, Christian (1871-1914) German writer and translator (1)
Mulford, Prentice (1834-1891) American writer (2)
Multatuli / Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887) Dutch writer (1)
Nell, Otto / Hanna O'Donnell (1874-1936) Austrian writer (1)
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900) German philosopher (17)
Nippold, Otfried (1864-1938) Swiss-German lawyer and writer (1)
Norris, William Edward (1847-1925) English writer (1)
Nothnagel, Hermann (1841-1905) German physician and professor of medicine in Vienna (1)
Novalis, Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801) German writer and philosopher (1)
Nyström-Hamilton, Louise (1838-1917) Swedish writer (1)
Ohorn, Anton (1846-1924) German-Czech writer (1)
Ortner, Eugen (1890-1947) German writer (1)
Ouida / Maria Louise Ramé (1839-1908) English writer (1)
Payot, Jules (1859-1939) a French teacher (1)
Pfleiderer, Otto (1839-1908) German Protestant theologian (1)
Pfordten, Hermann Ludwig (1857-1933) German musicologist and writer (1)
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) Greek philosophers (7)
Plutarch (45-120) Greek historian (2)
Prohászka, Ottokar (1858-1927) Hungarian theologian and bishop (2)
Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich (1799-1837) Russian writer (1)
Quadrupani, Carlo Giuseppe (1740-1807), Italian priest and preacher (1)
Racine, Jean (1639-1699) French dramatic (2)
Reuter, Gabriele (1859-1941) German writer (1)
Reynes-Monlaur, Marie (1866-1940) French writer (1)
Richter, Raoul (1871-1912) a German professor of philosophy (1)
Riemann, Hugo (1849-1919) German musicologist (1)
Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) Austrian poet and writer (8 )
Ritter, Anna (1865-1921) German poet (1)
Rod, Édouard (1857-1910) Franco-Swiss writer (1)
Rolland, Romain (1866-1944) French writer and music historian (2)
Rosebery, Lord (Archibald) (1847-1929) British politician and writer (1)
Rosegger, Peter (1843-1918) Austrian writer (1)
Rostand, Edmond (1868-1918) French writer (4)
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) English critic and painter (2)
Saager, Adolf (1879-1949) German-Swiss writer and journalist (1)
Sabatier, Paul (1858-1928) French priest and historian (1)
Sales, St. Francois de (1567-1622) Swiss bishop (1)
Salis-Marschlins, Barbara Margareth von (1855-1929) Swiss philosopher (1)
Sand, George / Aurore Dupin Dudevant (1804-1876) French writer (1)
Sandeau, Jules (1811-1883) French writer (1)
Scheffel, Joseph Victor von (1826-1886) German writer (2)
Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805) German writer (4)
Schmidt, Leopold (1860-1927) German historian of music (1)
Schnitzler, Arthur (1862-1931) Austrian writer (4)
Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860) German philosophers (11)
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) German composer (1)
Schur, Edward (1841-1929) French writer (1)
Schwabe, Toni (1877-1951) German writer (1)
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Scottish writer (2)
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) English writer (11)
Shaw, Bernard (1856-1950) Irish writer (2)
Sombart, Werner (1863-1941) German sociologist and economist (1)
Specht, Richard (1870-1932) Austrian writer and musicologist (1)
Spinoza, Baruch de (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher (1)
Steinitzer, Max (1864-1936) German musicologist and writer (1)
Storm, Theodor (1817-1888) German writer (1)
Strindberg, August (1849-1912) Swedish writer (8 )
Sudermann, Hermann (1857-1928) German writer (2)
Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941) Indian poet and writer (1)
Takeda, Izumo (1691-1756) Japanese writer (1)
Tegner, Esaias (1782-1846) Swedish writer (1)
Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) English poet and writer (2)
Thackeray, William (1811-1863) English writer (1)
Tolstoy, Lav Nikolayevich (1828-1910) Russian writer (8 )
Trine, Ralph Waldo (1866-1958) American mystic (1)
Thorn, Guy (1876-1923) English writer (1)
Thun-Salm, Gräfin Christian (1859-1935) Austrian-Czech writer (1)
Toscana, Luise von (1870-1947) Austrian princess (1)
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich (1818-1883) Russian writer (1)
Verhaeren, Émile (1855-1916) Belgian poet (2)
Viertel, Berthold (1885-1953) Austrian writer (1)
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) French philosopher and writer (4)
Voss, Richard (1851-1918) German writer (1)
Wagner, Richard (1813 -1883) German composer (2)
Wassermann, Jakob (1873-1934) German-Jewish writer (2)
Weber, Friedrich Wilhelm (1813-1894), German poet and politician (2)
Weininger, Otto (1880-1903) Austrian philosophers (1)
Weissmann, Adolf (1872-1948) Austrian composer and conductor (1)
Werfel, Franz (1890-1945) Austrian writer (1)
Wilbrandt, Adolf (1837-1911) German writer (1)
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) English writer (7)
Wolff, Ernst Victor (1886-1961) German musician (1)
Wolfram, Elise (1868-1942) German theosophist and writer (1)
Wundt, Wilhelm (1832-1920) German psychologist and philosopher (1)
Zahn, Ernst (1867-1952) Swiss writer (1)
Zola, Emile (1842-1902) French writer (1)