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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyLaon and CythnaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyLaon and CythnaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Copy S's critique on Rhododaphne'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley[critique of Rhododaphne]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyRevolt of Islam, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes' [...] Voisey at tea [...] Departs about 1/2 past ten -- M...Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyNotes to Queen MabUnknown
1800-1849'Monday Oct -- 10th. Read Political Justice [...] sit up till twelve [...] Read through Zastrozzi -- by Shelley.' ...Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyZastrozziPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go away in a coach at 1/2 past 8 [...] Sit up till ten reading Queen Mab'.Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen MabPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's Memoirs. I am much interested in Louvet -- but like all French men he is so in...Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen MabPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyRevolt of Islam, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyRosalind and Helen: a Modern EclogueManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Saturday Nov. 11th. [...] Read the 1st. Act of Prometheus unbound.'Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - write out Shelley's poem'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley'Lines written among the Eugenean Hills'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[Tuesday] July 24th. Shelley comes to breakfast. Read Adonais.'Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonaisUnknown
1800-1849'Sunday June [...] 19th. [...] Read the Revolt of Islam with M.G. [i.e. friend Chretien-Hermann Gambs]'. [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries fo...Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Revolt of IslamPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyRevolt of Islam, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Copy S's Tragedy'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyCenci, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Horace - work - finish copying Peter Bell which is sent'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyPeter Bell the ThirdManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Robert Browning to William Johnson Fox, ?28 March 1833: 'You must not think me too incroaching, if I make the getting back [of] "Rosalind & Helen" an excuse for call...anon Percy Bysshe ShelleyRosalind and Helen, a Modern EcloguePrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleySwellfoot the TyrantManuscript: Unknown


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