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

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 7 April 1843: 'I have read Caesar's commentaries, to be sure, .. but I found them harder to read than his battles were t...Elizabeth Barrett Julius CaesarDe Bello GallicoPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes in vols. I and II, including some copied from Lord Macaulay's copy of the text. Dates of reading include: "May 28 1917 Welcombe The most interesting military sto...George Otto Trevelyan Julius CaesarOpera omniaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Julius HareGuesses at TruthPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the death...		Charlotte Brontë Julius Hare and Augustus HareGuesses at TruthPrint: Book
1900-1945Many marginal notes, including dates of reading: May 27, 1919 and June 22-July 1 1923. "Too much Hohanzollen. Without that family these Berliners might have been quiet, d...George Otto Trevelyan Julius StindeThe Bucholz family. Second Part. Sketches of Berli...Print: Book
1800-1849'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. listen for two hours - at length bring her to Mary. Begi...Percy Bysshe Shelley Julius (Or Lucus Annaeus) Florus[possibly] Epitome bellorum omnium annorumPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Julius Leopold KleinGeschichte des DramasPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Once I planned that we should spend the evening reading Slowacki, and all day I kept looking forward to it. After supper we sat as usual in the living room. I began with...Aniela Zagorska Juliusz SlowackiGrob AgamemnonaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Juliusz Slowacki[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?...Thomas Carter Jung StillingTheory of pneumatologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S...Thomas Carter Jung StillingAutobiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Junius LettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837: 'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which struck me while I was reading him, on the subject...Elizabeth Barrett Justin MartyrApologia Prima Pro Christianis (LVXI,2)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837: 'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which struck me while I was reading him, on the subject...Elizabeth Barrett Justin MartyrDialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo, 70Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Doro...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Justin McCarthyA History of our Own TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899"A Victorian edition of a legal classic, the Institutes of Justinian, shows signs of careful and laborious study, with an elaborate system of marking (underlining ... lin...anon Justinian The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduc...Print: Book
1700-1799Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 30 January 1829: 'I [...] rejoice to learn from yourself that you are seriously set about adding [as editor] to the charms of the m...Walter Scott Justinian 'Institutes and Pandects'Print: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Nathaniel Wanley's translation of Justus Lipsius, 'A discourse of constancy'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Justus LipsiusA Discourse of ConstancyPrint: Book
1700-1799'While under the tuition of Mr. Smerdon, Gifford had translated the "Tenth Satire" of Juvenal for a holiday task.'William Gifford Juvenal Satire XPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bennett needed a guide when he travelled abroad - and his Florentine Journal is touchingly full of his delightful efforts to see and understand all, through his Baedeker...Arnold Bennett Karl Baedeker[guidebook on Florence]Print: Book


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