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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
 
1700-1799Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces passages from posthumously-published writings of the 23-year-old Madame Roland, transcribed by Mary Berry when aged 22, 'as parallel to her ...Mary Berry Madame Roland(passages from) Reverie du Bois de VincennesUnknown
1800-1849'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of the Revolution - & Clarendon aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Madame de StaelConsiderations sur les principaux evenemens de la ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'.Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAd?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAd?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. Deffand'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAd?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAd?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisLes Voeux t?m?raires; ou l'enthousiasmePrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisNouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisNouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAlphonsine; ou la tendresse maternellePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'Mary Shelley Madame de GenlisLes Chevaliers du cygne; ou la cour de CharlemagnePrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Adventures of Six Days'. Bed 1.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and les lettres d'una Peruviana'Mary Shelley Madame de GraffignyLettres d'une PeruviennePrint: Book
1700-1799" Began Les Memoires de Madame Maintenon. I doubt whether the vulgarity of stile (sic), absurd anecdotes and impertinent reflections will permit me to read it."Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de MaintenonLes Memoires de Madame de MaintenonPrint: Book
1700-1799" Nine till twelve in the Dressing room reading-finished Les Memoires de Maintenon. Began her letters"Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de MaintenonLes Memoires de Madame de MaintenonPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de MetternicheMemoiresPrint: Book
1600-1699'And after dinner, she to read in the "Illustr. Bassa" the plot of yeterday's play, which is most exactly the same.'Elizabeth Pepys Madame de Scud?riIbrahim, ou L'illustre BassaPrint: Book



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