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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
 
1800-1849They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.Elizabeth Barrett Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay Apollonius RhodiusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads Appolonius [sic] Rhodius'Percy Bysshe Shelley Apollonius RhodiusArgonauticaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giul...Percy Bysshe Shelley Apollonius RhodiusArgonauticaPrint: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton AppianRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley ApuleiusMetamorphoses; or, The Golden AssPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.Mary Shelley ApuleiusMetamorphoses; or, the Golden AssPrint: Book
1800-1849'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.Mary Shelley ApuleiusCupid and Psyche [from The Golden Ass]Print: Book
1800-1849'Translate Apuleius'Mary Shelley ApuleiusGolden Ass, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate entries based on this list] 'Symposium of Plato Pl...Percy Bysshe Shelley ApuleiusMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'Mary Shelley ApuleiusGolden Ass, The (Metamorphoses)Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed of Mr Ardington's booke, and then did eate my breakfast'Margaret Hoby Ardington[unknown]Unknown
1700-1799'Sarah Harriet Burney read Ariosto with "delight", but "Here and there he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that a...Sarah Harriet Burney Ariosto Print: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 3 October 1755: 'I met with some lines the other day in a translation of a famous Italian poet, which in a few expres...Margaret Collier AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
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1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge AristaenetusEpistolae graecaePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristophanesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] AristophanesEcclesiazusaePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge AristophanesThe BirdsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Gibbon and the Clouds of Aristophanes'Percy Bysshe Shelley AristophanesClouds, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley AristophanesClouds, ThePrint: Book


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