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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... was at the desire of Madame de Stael ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1900-1945'I feel that I can struggle on without Madame de Stael; but 'Adolphe' is an undiluted masterpiece.' Arnold Bennett Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be that it is not worthy of the talents he is supposed t...Anne Romilly Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1800-1849'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be that it is not worthy of the talents he is supposed t...Mr Whishaw Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] July 24th. Shelley comes to breakfast. Read Adonais.'Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonaisUnknown
1900-1945'During Preparation one wild autumn evening in St Monica's gymnasium, when the wind shook the unsubstantial walls and a tiny crescent of moon, glimpsed through a skylight...Vera Brittain Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonaisPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Essay on Shelley'.Members of XII Book ClubPercy Bysshe ShelleyAdonaisPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

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...		Victor Alexander Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonaïs
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonais: An elegy on the death of John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last m...		Rosamund Wallis Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Auth...Unknown
1700-1799'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Daughter get by heart - Johnson translated into Blank ...Hester Maria Thrale Metastasio [pseud.]AdrianoPrint: Book
1900-1945 It is not an article at all. [‘Adrien van de Venne’ in Studies (Dublin), June 1923] It is a romance, a drama, an epic; and puts you in the grande lignée des collectionn...Arnold Bennett Thomas BodkinAdrien van de VennePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"Consider what Lord Bacon says: 'Sense sends over to Imagination before Reason have judged...See Advancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47 of first Edition".William Blake Francis BaconAdvancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47Print: Book
1800-1849'In the [?] read principally the papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of Memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formally, i....William Windham [n/a]AdventurerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Does your Ladiship see The Adventurer? I buy it; but have not had time to read but here and there one; But purpose from the Character judicious Friends give of them, to ...Samuel Richardson John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Let me add, that Hawkesworth's imitations of Johnson are sometimes so happy,that it is extremely difficult to distinguish them, with certainty, from the compositions of ...James Boswell John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As it was very hot I decided to pretend I had finished HSC [Higher School Certificate], and read Joad's book on Post War World, while drying my hair in the garden.'Hilary Spalding C.E.M. JoadAdventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Bette...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Trelawney's Adventures of a Younger Brother. It is a book that excites whilst reading, and leaves behind it, many painful feelings. A true radical s...Sarah Harriet Burney Edward John TrelawneyAdventures of a Younger SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 19 Aug. 1810, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told W[ordsworth] that she was "reading Malkin's Gil Blas - and it is a beautiful Book as to printing etc but I think the Trans...Dorothy Wordsworth Alain Rene Le SageAdventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, ThePrint: Book


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