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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, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after dinner under the bright yellow leaves of the orchard...Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'Wordsworth FamilyGeoffrey ChaucerunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'Wordsworth FamilyBishop Joseph HallunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'Mary Hutchinson ?James ThomsonunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 16 January 1803, describing visit to Matthew Newton's to obtain gingerbread: 'The blind Man [Matthew Newton] and his Wife an...[Miss] Newton unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 17 August 1800: 'Wm read us The Seven Sisters on a stone.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe Seven SistersUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 18 April 1802: 'I went to drink tea at Luff's ... William met me at Rydale ... We sate up late ... He met me with the conclu...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthThe Robin and the ButterflyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 April 1802: We spent the morning in the orchard -- read the Prothalamium of Spenser.'William and Dorothy WordsworthEdmund SpenserProthalamiumPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 May 1800: 'Read Macbeth in the morning ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 27 July 1800: 'In the morning, I read Mr. Knight's Landscape.'Dorothy Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightThe Landscape: A Didactic Poem in Three BooksPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 31 August 1800: 'At 11 o'clock [pm] Coleridge came ... We sate and chatted till 1/2-past three, W[illiam]. in his dressing-g...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 5 October 1800: 'Coleridge read a 2nd time Christabel; we had increasing pleasure. A delicious morning.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer aloud, and Mary read the first canto of The Fairy Que...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer aloud, and Mary read the first canto of The Fairy Que...Mary Hutchinson Edmund SpenserThe Faerie Queene (Canto I)Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 December 1800: 'A fine morning. I read.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 February, 1802: 'We sate by the fire, and ... read the Pedlar, thinking it done; but lo! though Wm. could find fault with ...William and Dorothy WordsworthWilliam WordsworthThe PedlarManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 March 1802: 'Read a little German, got my dinner.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sate by a nice snug fire, and William read Spenser, an...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sate by a nice snug fire, and William read Spenser, an...William Wordsworth Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'It is now 7 o'clock ... Wm. is still on his bed ... I continued to read to him. We were much delighte...Dorothy Wordsworth Ben JonsonTo PenshurstPrint: Book


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