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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
 
1900-1945'I can't be bothered reading heavy stuff. I don't seem able to concentrate for long. I like books of the romantic and family kind. Just now I've got at home the "Home Div...Pearl BuckThe Home DividedPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Pearl Mary Theresa CraigieLetters from a Silent StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading on board the life of Pasteur, provided by Sylvia. It would interest you both, especially you, for now that I come to think of it wriggling germs are ...Gertrude Bell Pearson ChoateThe King who went on Strike Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 13 January 1875: "I have been staying at Mrs. Owen Wister's and having Fanny Kemble read Calderon for me tete a tete of a morning."Fanny Kemble Pedro Calderon de la BarcaunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra -- in which the Queen Catterine tells Henry that [...] Jane Seymour can sing, Ana Bolena dance and the Infanta ...Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jan. 2nd. 1820 Florence Read a little Spanish -- Los Cabellos de [...] Absalon de Calderon de la Barca.'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLos Cabellos de AbsalonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLos Cabellos de AbsalonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Vida es SuenoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] a...Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Vida es SuenoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to commen...Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Feb. 16th. [...] Read a little of La Cisma de Ingalaterra.' Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca [quotes three lines from Act I]' [readings from this text also ...Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Virgen del SagrarioPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with facility, & am now abridging the Angelica of Lope de V...Robert Southey Pedro de Azevedo Tojal Carlos Reduzido, Inglaterra Illustrada Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 3 September 1766:] 'Little puss is sitting by me on a huge folio of popish saints, on which I have wasted many a half hour latel...Catherine Talbot Pedro de Ribadeneira?Flos SanctorumPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Pedro Calderon de la Barca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa devocion de la CruzPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la Barca El Purgatorio de San PatricioPrint: Book


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