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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
 
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]JeremiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley Bartolome de las CasasBrevissima relacion de la destruycion de las India...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschylus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley AthenaeusDeipnosophistaiPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de VoltairePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself'Percy Bysshe Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de VoltairePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads Appolonius [sic] Rhodius'Percy Bysshe Shelley Apollonius RhodiusArgonauticaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'Percy Bysshe Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'Mary Godwin Sydney OwensonO'Donnel: a national talePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [Francesco] Petrarch [Petrarco]Il trionfo della MortePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.'Percy Shelley, Charles Clairmont and Mrs GisbornePedro Calderon de la Barca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: "I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor (sir Johns) Poems. the more I read them the more I...Sir George Beaumont John Beaumont[poems]Unknown
1700-1799'[Sir Hans Sloane] considered my Letter over, and finding, by the contents, Doctor [italics] Mead [end italics] recommended me to him, said "Poor Creature! I suppose you ...Hans Sloane Laetitia Pilkington[Letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'[Sir [-]] observed that he was reperusing Miss Seward's Letters, and said, what an odd fancy it was to bequeath them to Constable, enjoining their publication after her ...Sir [-] Anna SewardLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'[speaking of some verses in the notes to Pope's Dunciad, Boswell and Miss Seward wonder who they are by] He was prompt with his answer: "Why, Sir, they were written by o...Samuel Johnson Mr Lewis[verses on Pope in notes to the 'Dunciad']Print: Book
1700-1799'[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstanding the Friendship Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] p...Laetitia Pilkington Jonathan Swift'a Libel on Dr Delany and a Certain Great Lord'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end italics], Dated six o'Clock in the Morning; it began with...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeDunciadPrint: Book
1700-1799'[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end italics], Dated six o'Clock in the Morning; it began with...Jonathan Swift Alexander PopeDunciadPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Susan] is reading [italics] Frost [end italics]. She was terrified by the story of the lost child in the cellar.'Susan Glossop Antonia WhiteFrost at MidnightPrint: Book


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