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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'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Arthur Schopenhauer[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Gustav Fechner[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Rudolph Hermann Lotze[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, beginning, indeed, to feel myself at home in the "Tenedo...John Mitchel Livy[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel Homer[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy of Rabelais, in four volumes, imprinted by Philip Cr...John Mitchel Francois Rabelais[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy of Rabelais, in four volumes, imprinted by Philip Cr...John Mitchel Claudius Galen[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went off to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed through the workhouse; read the pestilent literature of ...anon Blaise Pascal[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed through the workhouse; read the pestilent literature of ...anon Jean de La Fontaine[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...' Thomas Green [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Mary Godwin Virgil[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Edmund Burke[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Homer[unknown]Print: Book


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