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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
 
1900-1945'I walked through the park for a few minutes and not finding anything of interest to see or hear, I turned into a lane nearby that led to the cemetery. Here I read the in... [n/a][tomb inscriptions]Print: epitaphs on tombs at cemetery
1800-1849'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliq...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]Print: Broadsheet, Pamphlet
1800-1849"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge of the tenets of each. This was supplemented by the...John Bedford Leno Anti Corn Law League[tracts]Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies [trade union history]Print: Book
1800-1849'I likewise received the Tales you sent me before from your friend in Edinburgh, and should have acknowledged them long ago; but a multiplicity of family and farming conc...James Hogg [traditional tales]Unknown
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Vittorio Alfieri[Tragedies]Print: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Jean anon.[tragedies]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I thank you. It h...Jane Bailie Welsh Unknown[Tragedies]Print: 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
1700-1799'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...Samuel Johnson Euripides[Tragedies]Print: Book
1700-1799'We talked of a lady's verses on Ireland. MISS REYNOLDS. "Have you seen them, Sir?" JOHNSON. "No, Madam. I have seen a translation from Horace, by one of her daughters. S...Samuel Johnson Miss Lucan[translation from Horace]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Graves, who wrote the Spiritual Quixote'. [the Latin v...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Doctr Burney has translated the famous old French Chanson Militaire - [italics] all about Roland [end italics]: how happy, how skilful, how elegant is that dear Creature...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles Burney[translation of a French Chanson]Unknown
1700-1799'Burney has translated a provencale Ballad written by Thibout King of Navarre 500 Years ago, into the prettiest English Verses I ever read, but as they will be published ...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles Burney[translation of a provencale ballad]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace destroy/ Or strive to ease thy woes/ Will thou to man i...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[Translation of an Arabic Ode]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Povoleri the Italian who dedicated the Tragedy of Rosmunda to me some years ago, has translated Gray's Church Yard Elegy into Tuscan: tis enchantment to hear the Fellow ...Giovanni Povoleri Giovanni Povoleri[translation of Gray's Elegy into Italian]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and the Cyclops - but he likes romances any marvellous ta...Percy Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley[translation of Homer's Hymn to Mercury and the Cy...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first...George Gordon, Lord Byron Francis Hodgson[translation of Juvenal]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Daughter get by heart - Johnson translated into Blank ...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[translation of lines from Metastasio's 'Adriano']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813, on his and Lady Oxford's shared enthusiasm for Lucretius: '[Lady Oxford] is an adept in the text of...Lady Oxford Busby[translation of Lucretius]Print: Book


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