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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'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud'Mary Shelley Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Georgics and Dante - S. read Euripides'Percy Bysshe Shelley Euripides[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'The evening was remarkably wet and there was no alternative but to stay at home. I read a little smoked a little drank a little thought a little and then saw all was ri...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'S. reads Lucretius'Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'Mary Shelley Pietro Metastasio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'Mary Shelley Pietro Metastasio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & Chrysostome'Mary Shelley Chrysostomus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dant...Mary Shelley Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and wrett a letter to Mr Rhodes: then I dined ... and after I went to my booke: then to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I was busie in the house, and walkinge and reading tell supper time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Giovanni Boccaccio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] - The Greek Tragedians & Calderon'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la Barca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Bocaccio [sic]'Percy Shelley and Charles ClairmontPedro Calderon de la Barca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] aloud - & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont]'Percy Bysshe Shelley Giovanni Boccaccio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.'Percy Shelley, Charles Clairmont and Mrs GisbornePedro Calderon de la Barca[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to worke tell dinner time: after, I wrought and reed, and was accompened with Mr Edward Gatt and after with Mistress Mari. Gatt'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Massinger'Mary Shelley Philip Massinger[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'Percy Bysshe Shelley Philip Massinger[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis Beaumont[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. visits the galleries - writes - reads Spinosa - Clarendon aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Baruch Spinoza[unknown]Print: Book


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