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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
 
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.'George Gordon Lord Byron Pierre Louis GingueneHistoire Litteraire de l'ItaliePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Ginguene in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud.] Pierre Louis GingueneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'George Eliot [pseud] Pierre Louis Ginguene[possibly] Histoire litteraire d'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on ...Thomas Carlyle Pierre Simon LaplaceEssai philosophique sur les probabilitesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"'George Eliot Pierre Victor RenouardHistory of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899I am very busy with Beranger for the "Britannica".Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre-Jean BerangerunknownPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'It is not my interest to recommend it but in justice to what I owe to your amusement I must advise you to read the Lettres du Marquis de Roselle, if you have not yet see...Horace Walpole Pierre-Laurent Buirette de BelloyLe Siege de CalaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False Delicacy an English Comedy translated into French.'Claire Clairmont Pierre-Laurent Buirette de BelloyGabrielle de Vergy, tragediePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & ...Sarah Harriet Burney Pierre-Simon PallasTravels through the Southern Provinces of the Russ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Took a book on Father Damien into the Park.'Vere Hodgson Piers ComptonFather DamienPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro ChiariLa bella PellegrinaPrint: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Pietro della ValleTravels in Persia Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday October 27th. [...] Begin Istoria Civile di Napoli da Ginannone.' [records of reading this text also appear in journal entries for 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14 November ...Claire Clairmont Pietro GiannoneDell'Istoria civile del regno di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pietro MetastasioOperePrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Pietro Metastasioopera (16 Tom)Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'Mary Shelley Pietro Metastasio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'Mary Shelley Pietro Metastasio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioL'OlimpiadePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioDemofoontePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioGiuseppe riconosciutoPrint: Unknown


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