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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''read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'Mary Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeZapolya: a Christmas tale in two partsPrint: Book
1800-1849During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g...John Cole Aaron HillZaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Zastrozzi'.Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Percy Bysshe ShelleyZastrozziPrint: Book
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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph SchellingZeitschrift fur speculative PhysikPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mama read the story of Mde. de Genlis to us that is called "Zelie" or the "Ingenue" it is very fine. I like it the best of all the pieces by that author.'Agathe Wynne Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de GenlisZeliePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Finished Moore's "Zeluco". The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibiting the hideous effect of their unrestricted indulgenc...Thomas Green John MooreZeluco. Various views of human naturePrint: Book
1800-1849"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W...Frances Power Cobbe Anquetil du PerronZend AvestaPrint: 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 MetastasioZenobiaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1843: 'I have read the Letters from Palmyra. They are [...] powerfully written, in an elevated style which ris...Elizabeth Barrett William WareZenobia: or, The Fall of PalmyraPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare Zig ZagPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Marie CorelliZiskaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?7 January 1846: 'Zoe [...] I have been reading at last. An extraordinary book certainly. I should take the author to be a f...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Geraldine Endsor JewsburyZoe: The History of Two LivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with it that I could not help writing a letter of congra...Sydney Smith James Justinian MorierZohrab the HostagePrint: Book
1800-1849'By the way, have you read Mr Morier's Hohrab, or the Hostage? And if you have, do you (as I hope) like it? And if you have not, can you tell whether others like it? I wa...Sarah Harriet Burney James Justinian MorierZohrab the HostageManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyll, from the Temple, London, on return from French holiday of summer 1861: 'I had intended to write yesterday [...] and I scarce kno...Alfred Tennyson Zohrab the HostagePrint: Book
1700-1799'On this day I began reading Darwin's "Zoonomia", w'ch I had lately proposed in the Book Society.'John Marsh Erasmus DarwinZoonomiaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'How wonderfully must the brain be organized to form all these sensations in a twentieth part of the time I wro...Robert Southey Erasmus DarwinZoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic LifePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I don't think, talking of Americans, that I've told you about an old couple called Williams Jackson who have "debouchés" here as the trimmings of an American commission ...Gertrude Bell A.V. Williams JacksonZoroaster: the prophet of ancient IranPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster Max BeerbohmZuleika DobsonPrint: Book


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