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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'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Ralph Waldo EmersonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Nathaniel HawthorneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Ambrose BierceunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Sidney LanierunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Mark TwainunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Day wet - read'.John Cole unknownunknownUnknown
1850-1899'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.George Eliot [pseud] Alexander Bain (?)unknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustin Sainte BeuveunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'George Eliot [pseud] Thomas MalthusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Moliere (pseud.)unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read aloud to Jane.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read all evening.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read aloud to Jane in the evening.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read I don't know what.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 4 November 1811: 'In the evening Mrs. Damer and I read Alfieri in Italian -- but what Italian! so stuffed with Tuscanisms, so fraught with words imm...Mary Berry and Anne Damer AlfieriunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have be...Mary Berry Martial unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have be...Mary Berry Livy unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have be...Mary Berry Suetonius unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to a friend, [1841]: 'I have read every word of Mazzini, and agree entirely with him in his views of what civil liberty ought to be, and with most of his state...Mary Berry MazziniunknownPrint: Book


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