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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 the Filippo of Alfieri'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriFilippoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriPolinicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriAntigonePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriRosmundaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriVirginiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'Mary Shelley Vittorio Alfieri[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriSaulPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriAgidePrint: Book
1800-1849'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley Vittorio Alfieri[Tragedies]Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy ...Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriVita di Vittorio Alfieri ... scritta da essoPrint: Book
1800-1849'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ev...Jane Baillie Welsh Vittorio AlfieriUnknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from...Lytton Strachey Vittorio AlfieriunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. ...Virginia Woolf Vittorio AlfieriunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel t...Virginia Woolf Vittorio AlfieriunknownPrint: Book
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 Voltaire  Print: Book
1800-1849'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Paine's "Age of Reason", but remained unconvinced [by ...Joseph Gutteridge Voltaire Dictionary of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Oct -- 17 [...] Read Memoires de Voltaire by Himself'.Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.' Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read Memoires of Voltaire by himself.' Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- & the Life of Alfieri till late [...] I am much delighted with Alfier...Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book


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