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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
 
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and after I dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after I had reed and praied, I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed up late reading & smoking'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Sophocles[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschylus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I dinned, then I walked about with my mother and reed, tell towardes night: then I praied priuatly and went to my booke again: after I went to supper...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas Hobbes[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'Mary Shelley Torquato Tasso[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. re...Percy Bysshe Shelley John Locke[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Write - Read - I am sure I forget what'Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'Mary Shelley Ovid[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Phaedon[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Theocritus'Percy Bysshe Shelley Theocritus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'Percy Bysshe Shelley Euripides[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'Mary and Percy Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius'Mary and Percy Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, wrett diuers notes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'Mary Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - finish Lucretius'Mary Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book


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