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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
 
1850-1899'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f...Thomas Jones Samuel Baker[Probably] 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the...Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'.Claire Clairmont [probably] August Wilhelm von Schlegel[probably] A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art an...Print: Book
1700-1799'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His tale of woe is expressed in the most moving and natu...Eugenia Wynne William Henry Lyttelton[probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelto...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to state what are original propensities, and to trace o...Sydney Smith George Combe[probably] A System of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Edith Nesbit[probably] Five Children and ItPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - I Book of Virgil'Mary Shelley Virgil[probably] GeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was glad to have the enjoyment of reading Schlegel's History of Literature. It is a fine work, built on a sure foundation; and though I do not always agree with his ta...Charlotte Bury Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel[probably] Geschichte der alten und neuen Literatu...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] George Grote[probably] History of GreecePrint: Book
1850-1899'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'George Eliot [pseud] George Grote[probably] History of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon[probably] History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Dante'Mary Shelley Dante Alighieri[probably] InfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'Mary Shelley Dante Alighieri[probably] InfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge parcel of books. His father had bought him a complete...Lawrence Durrell Robert Smith Surtees[probably] Jorrocks's Jaunts and JollitiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'Mary Shelley Laurence Sterne[probably] Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am so fatigued with poring over a German book, I scarcely can collect my thoughts or even spell English words.'Mary Wollstonecraft [probably] Christian Gotthilf Salzmann[probably] Moralisches ElementarbuchPrint: Book
1850-1899'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point and idiom than I expected after the first Canto or two...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[probably] MorgantePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'George Eliot [pseud] Franco Sachetti[probably] NovellePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'Mary Shelley Homer[probably] OdysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen George Macdonald[probably] Princess and Curdie, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of ...George Eliot [pseud] Herbert Spencer[probably] Principles of Psychology, ThePrint: Serial / periodical


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