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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 Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Livy'Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi and Dante - S. finishes Livy'Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAb urbe conditaPrint: 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 LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaUnknown
1800-1849'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Livy'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a ...Samuel Taylor Coleridge William GodwinAbbasManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottAbbot, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.' John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottAbbot, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Abbot'Mary Shelley Walter ScottAbbot, The: a romancePrint: Book
1900-1945'"Abdication" arrived four of five days ago. How short the book is and how much you have managed to put into it. As you may imagine I read it at once.' Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerAbdicationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished Abdominal Injuries.'Albert Ruskin Cook James Rutherford MorisonAbdominal InjuriesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
Surgical Diagnosis – Martin
Tropical Diseases – Stitt
Abdominal Injuries – Morison & R.
Household ...		Albert Ruskin Cook James Rutherford MorisonAbdominal InjuriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in your hands with confidence and trust - but one never k...Joseph Conrad Anatole France Abeille: conte Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to a reading of Drinkwater 'Abraham Lincoln' - most members taking part'members of XII Book ClubJohn DrinkwaterAbraham LincolnPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into Henault; but Lord Hailes, in my opinion, leaves him...Samuel Johnson Charles Jean François HenaultAbrege chronologique de l'histoire de FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...Thomas Carlyle Jean Baptiste Joseph DelambreAbrege d'astronomiePrint: Book
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle Francois FenelonAbrege des vies des anciens philosophesPrint: Book


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