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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Before tea I sate 2 hours in the parlour. Read part of The Knight's Tale with exquisite delight.'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Mary read the Prologue to Chaucer's tales to me in the morning.'Mary Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerPrologue to The Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea ... My beloved Will...William Wordsworth Charlotte SmithElegiac SonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea running the heel of...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonsonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea running the heel of...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea running the heel of...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 30 October 1802: '... [William Wordsworth and Stoddart] surprized us by their arrival at four o'clock in the afternoon ... after te...?John Stoddart Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 8 November 1802: 'I have read one canto of Ariosto today.'Dorothy Wordsworth Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, about how she spent Saturday, 23 January 1802: '[after walking in cold] O how comfortable and happy we felt ourselves, sitting by o...William and Dorothy WordsworthWilliam WordsworthDescriptive SketchesUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, describing how hours following William Wordsworth's marriage to Mary Hutchinson on 4 October 1802 spent: '... [at Kirby] we wen...Wordsworth Family verse epitaphPrint: tombstone epitaph
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 1 August 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coleridge] all went together to Mary Point [in Bainriggs ...Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, S. T. ColeridgeWilliam Wordsworth[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 12 March 1802: ' ... I read the remainder of Lessing.'Dorothy Wordsworth Gotthold Ephraim LessingunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 21 May 1802, 'Wm. wrote two sonnets on Buonaparte, after I had read Milton's sonnets to him.'Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonsonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night's rest. He went to bed -- I read to him, to endeavo...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonParadise Lost (Book I)Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night's rest. He went to bed -- I read to him, to endeavo...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 4 June 1802, "... a tranquil night ... I read Mother Hubbard's Tale before I went to bed."Dorothy Wordsworth Mother Hubbard's TaleUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 February, 1802: 'I read the story of [?] in Wanly [?].'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrica...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthLyrical BalladsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrica...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthLyrical BalladsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrica...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book


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