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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'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.' ...Claire Clairmont (probably) Beaumarchais(probably) Le Barbier de SevillePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 4 September 1834: 'Our host at the inn at Avignon, a poet and a very gentlemanlike man, gave me the enclosed...Granville Leveson Gower ?Pierson Unknown
1850-1899'Yesterday I received a letter that gave me much pleasure from a poor fellow student of mine who has been all winter very ill, and seems to be but little better even now....Robert Louis Stevenson a fellow student of Robert Louis StevensonletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart A.K.[fragments, including something in French]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832: 'I have the greatest pleasure in reading religious books. I find that I understand the Bible be...Harriet Countess Granville AdamsPrivate ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834): 'The anxiety of the last two months has given me an impossibility of feeling happy [...] The ...Harriet Countess Granville AdamsPrivate ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799' I send you Addington's Letters. I find the melancholy ones the most interesting - There is a grossness in the raptures from which I turn...'Mary Wollstonecraft Addington[Letters]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington AddisonEvidences of the Christian ReligionPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry, 'Notes of Early Life': 'My dear grandmother [...] made me read the Psalms and chapters to her every morning; but, as neither explanation nor comment was made ...Mary Berry Addison and Steele (ed.)The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945''Finished "[The] Rose and Ring" (how satisfying) and turned over the "Assemblies of al-Hariri", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and th...Ronald Storrs Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence DivisionA Handbook on Mesopotamia Print: Book
1850-1899'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History ...George Eliot (pseud) AeschlyusChoephoraePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.George Eliot (pseud) AeschlyusEumenidesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'S. translates Promethes Desmotes and I write it'Percy Bysshe Shelley AeschlyusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschlyus[several plays]Print: Book
1850-1899'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus [?]PrometheusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides on...Thomas Babington Macaulay Aeschylus Print: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay AeschylusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Very busy today. Reading Aeschylus & learning the verb τύπτω.Elizabeth Barrett Aeschylus Print: Book
1800-1849We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusunknownPrint: Book


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