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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
 
1850-1899'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'.George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.'George Eliot [pseud.] AeschylusAgamemnonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Aeschylus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'Percy Bysshe Shelley AeschylusAgamemnonPrint: Book
1850-1899'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He ...Oscar Wilde Aeschylus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to a play-reading. Gilbert Murray's translation of The Agamemnon had been selected. The following took part. Chorus & Elders H.M. Wa...Members of the XII Book Club AeschylusAgamemnonPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Have you seen any reviews of Maeterlinck’s latest book, and if so, what do you think of the ideas it sets forth? There was a glorious piece of writing in last week’s...Ivor Bertie Gurney Aeschylus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1850-1899"I read with satisfaction Lowell's poem wh. you sent me. The only fault I find with him is that he occasionally lets his criticism get mixed up in his poetry, but it is t...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellAgassizPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Agatha's Husband'Sarah Good Dinah CraikAgatha's HusbandPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is very interesting and expressed with equal grace, eleg...Eugenia Wynne Christoph Martin WielandAgathonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 July 1844: 'I heard the other day that "Agathonia" was Mrs Gore's! [...] Mr Crabbe Robinson told George [? i.e. Barrett...Henry Crabb Robinson Catherine GoreAgathoniaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AgePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I had read and cheap editions were in my possession; bu...Francis Place Thomas PaineAge of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age o...Charles Manby Smith Tom PaineAge of ReasonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Man". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and hi...Daniel Bamford Thomas PaineAge of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 18 Jul 1844: 'Found that a prisoner committed yesterday was an avowed infidel who had read attentively Paine's "Age of Reas...H.C. Tom PaineAge of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'Mary Shelley Thomas PaineAge of Reason, The: being an investigation of true...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Age of Reason'Mary Shelley Thomas PaineAge of Reason, The: being an investigation of true...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Age of Reason'Mary Shelley Thomas PaineAge of Reason, The: being an investigation of true...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriAgidePrint: Book


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