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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
 
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Plutarch MoraliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of TheseusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.'Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of TheseusPrint: 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 Plutarch Life of RomulusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jany. 9th. Finish the Life of Romulus and half that of Lycurgus.'Claire Clairmont Plutarch Lives of Romulus and LycurgusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Jany. 11th. Finish the Life of Lycurgus -- Begin that of Numa'.Claire Clairmont Plutarch Lives of Lycurgus and NumaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Jany. 12. [...] Read & finish the Life of Numa -- Begin Solon [makes notes from this reading]'.Claire Clairmont Plutarch Lives of Numa and SolonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 13th. Finish the Life of Solon'.Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of SolonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany. 14th. Read the Life of Poplicola -- 'Saturday Jany. 15th. Finish the Life of Poplicola'.Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of PoplicolaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jany. 16th. [...] Read the Life of Themistocles which a beautiful monument to the glory & virtue of the Athenians [goes on to comment in detail on text].' Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of ThemistoclesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 17th. Read the Life of Camillus -- 'Tuesday Jany. 18th. [...] Finish the Life of Camillus.'Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of CamillusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany. 21st. Begin Life of Pericles.'Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of PericlesPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am fallen in love with Plutarch's Morals, a little of which my lord reads us now and then out of a very so so tr...Thomas Secker Plutarch MoralsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Plutarch, and drink cough mixtures.'Robert Louis Stevenson Plutarch unknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'He had in his pocket, "Pomponius Mela de Situ Orbis," in which he read occasionally, and seemed very intent upon ancient geography.' Samuel Johnson Pomponius MelaDe situ orbisPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again ...George Eliot [pseud] possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz[if this Gotz, then poetry]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Lines by the Princess Amelia” beginning 'Unthinking, idle, wild and young, I laughed, and danced, a...Catherine Austen Princess Amelia Unknown
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931: 'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them partly reading Princess Daisy of Pless, speculati...Virginia Woolf Princess Daisy of PlessFrom My Private DiaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry on the Life and writings (including memoirs) of the Princess Dashkoff, published 1840: 'The whole work -- of which I saw only the first part, which comes down ...Mary Berry Princess DashkoffLife and WritingsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me at three o'clock. She made Lady Charlotte read to me the letters that had passed between the Queen...Lady Charlotte Princess of WalesLetters to the Queen of EnglandManuscript: Letter


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