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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'Tuesday March 16th. Go in the Morning to the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- sit on the steps of the temple of Esculapius and read Wordsworth'.Claire Clairmont William WordsworthunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first li...Arnold Bennett W.D. HowellsunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first li...Arnold Bennett Russell LowellunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico.' Claire Clairmont Demosthenes unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.' Claire Clairmont Virgil unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea [...] read Catholic deputation with Mr. Gambs in Hessey & Taylor's Mon...Claire Clairmont Charles RollinunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 8 March 1823: 'We are now doing Cicero in the evening instead of doing Homer both morning and...Thomas Moulton-Barrett and boys at CharterhouseCicero unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 8 March 1823: 'We are now doing Cicero in the evening instead of doing Homer both morning and...Thomas Moulton-Barrett and boys at CharterhouseHomer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 26 April 1823: 'Russel works us most properly now in Grammar, and Ovid which we are to be examined in'. John Russell (master), Thomas Moulton-Barrett, and other boys at CharterhouseOvid unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Herbert Spencer just now very hard.'Robert Louis Stevenson Herbert SpencerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I w...Elizabeth Barrett Homer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I was...Elizabeth Barrett Homer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'At twelve I enjoyed a literary life in all its pleasures. Metaphysics were my highest delights and after having read a page from Locke my mind not only felt edified but...Elizabeth Barrett John LockeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic]...Elizabeth Barrett John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic]...Elizabeth Barrett William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic]...Elizabeth Barrett Homer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and Vi...Elizabeth Barrett Homer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and ...Elizabeth Barrett Virgil unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and ...Elizabeth Barrett HookerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'we each [Elizabeth Barrett and her brother Edward] are blessed with abilities -- my dear Bro's are more solid & more profound -- mine are more refined & dazzling [...]...Elizabeth Barrett Cicero unknownPrint: Book


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