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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"Benjamin Dockray ... acquired a copy of Godwin's Memoirs [of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] secondhand in 1860 and settled down to read it for the f...Benjamin Dockray William GodwinMemoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Righ...Print: Book
1700-1799'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'Frances Burney William GodwinCaleb WilliamsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinThe Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and ...Print: Book
1700-1799'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part of Voltaire's "Candide", w'ch having read a great man...John Marsh William GodwinThings as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1700-1799'...immediately afterwards went in the diligence to Margate during which I finished the eccentric performance of "Caleb Williams".'John Marsh William GodwinThings as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1800-1849'He [Shelley] reads part of "Caleb Williams" to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinThings as they are: or, the adventures of Caleb Wi...Print: Book
1800-1849'[T]he few men who are about me are all eager to get yr books but what has vexd me is that the 2 children & 4 young Women to whom I endeavoured to read them did not chuse...Lady Caroline Lamb William GodwinunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary reads Political Justice all the morning'.Mary Godwin William GodwinAn enquiry concerning political justice and its in...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Mary Berry, in letter of 2 January 1800: 'I have been reading [...] a new novel of Godwin's, in four vols., called "The Travels of St. Leon." it is an odd work, like all...Mary Berry William GodwinSt LeonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Caleb Williams - read to Jane.Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin William GodwinThings as the are, or, the Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of St Leon'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin William GodwinSt. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is done - read Voltaire's tales'.Mary Godwin William GodwinEssay on SepulchresPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Wiliam Godwin] told me [Harriet Martineau] [...] that he wrote the first half of "Caleb William" in three months, and then stopped for six, -- finishing it in three mor...Harriet Martineau William GodwinCaleb WilliamsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William GodwinThoughts Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr Parr's Sp...Print: Book
1700-1799'Brought Mrs Wolstonecraft's "Letters from Norway" [etc.] Mr Godwin in his "Life of Mrs W." speaks very highly of it.'Joseph Hunter William GodwinMemoirs of the Author of the Vindication of the Ri...Print: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Godwin's "Memoirs of Mrs. Woolstonecraft"; which strikingly evince that love, even in a modern philosopher, "emollit mores, nec sinet esse feros"...'Thomas Green William GodwinMemoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Righ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Godwin's "St. Leon". In the Preface, he explicitly abjures the doctrine of extinguishing the private affections, which he had inculcated in his Political Justice.....Thomas Green William GodwinSt Leon, a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinThings as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Wi...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin William GodwinThings as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Wi...Print: Book
1800-1849"I attempt to read a book which attacks my most cherished sentiments as calmly as one which corroborates them. I have not read your writings slightly, I have daily occas...Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinPolitical JusticePrint: Book


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