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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
 
1700-1799John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first book of the Aeneid were all of Virgil that I transl...John Wilson Croker Virgil Eclogues IPrint: Book
1700-1799John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first book of the Aeneid were all of Virgil that I transl...John Wilson Croker Virgil Aeneid IPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Virgil The AeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done infinite mischief for a series of ages; since to it...Samuel Richardson Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a very civil Canonico Bandini, showed us the Virgil of ...Mary Berry Virgil WorksManuscript: Unknown
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Virgil unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.Pupils at Mr Perry's schoolVirgil  Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 24 May, 1796: 'The reliance that I can place on my own application renders me little anxious for the future — & for the pr...Robert Southey Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday July 2nd. Do a latin Excercise [sic]. Read a little of the [...] Enead [quotes Book I line 33].' ...Claire Clairmont Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland. [...] 'Wednesday July 5th. [...] Read 40 lines of Virgil'. [Report 'Read Virgil' ...Claire Clairmont Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.' Claire Clairmont 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 Virgil unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & ha...Elizabeth Barrett Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Virgil  Print: Book
1900-1945'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugees [...] began to reach Palestine: "I was long silent...Edward Morgan Forster Virgil Aeneid (Book II)Print: Book
1800-1849'Whewell, who was [Tennyson's] tutor, he called "the lion-like man" and had for him a great respect. It is reported that Whewell, recognising his genius, tolerated in him...Alfred Tennyson Virgil  Print: Book
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Alfred Tennyson Virgil  Print: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson Virgil Aeneid VIPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Virgil  Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of...Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel)Virgil Georgics IPrint: Book


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