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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'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Giovanni Boccaccio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'Mary Shelley Francesco Petrarch[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'Percy Bysshe Shelley Giovanni Boccaccio[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Armata - read Homer'Mary Shelley Homer[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon'Mary Shelley Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la Barca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Don Quixote & Calderon'Mary Shelley Pedro Calderon de la Barca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a book of Tasso to Shelley.'Mary Shelley Torquato Tasso[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Greek - Tasso'Mary Shelley Torquato Tasso[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Greek - Voltaire's Tales'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read at the Athenaeum.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Horace with S in the evening'Mary and Percy Shelley Horace[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'Mary Shelley Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and againe took order of for supper and hard one of my wemen read of perkins'Margaret Hoby William Perkins[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, hard mr Rhodes read praies, and went to bed'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I was reading - I heard a voice say "Mary" - "It is S...Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'After I was readie I praied, then reed of the bible and an other good book, and after 10 a cloke...'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then Mr Hoby reed to me and an other gentlewoman Came to me, with whom I talked tell 5 a Clocke'Thomas Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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