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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'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'Mary Shelley E. LudlowMemoirs of E. Ludlow Esq.; Lieutenant-General of t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Julie'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Julius Florus and finish the little vol of Cicero.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Marcus Tullius Cicero Print: Book
1800-1849'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Greek RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'Mary and Percy Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'begin Macchiavelli's history.'Mary Shelley Niccolo MacchiavelliHistorie FiorentinePrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonPamela; or Virtue RewardedPrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin the Defence of Poesy by Sir P. Sidney.'Mary Shelley Philip SidneyDefence of Poesie, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin the Georgics with S.'Mary and Percy Shelley VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1600-1699'Begun again to rise betimes, by 4 a-clock. And made an end of "The Adventures of five houres", and it is a most excellent play.'Samuel Pepys Samuel TuckThe Adventures of five houresPrint: Book
1900-1945'behind my back, E.J. is reading H.G.'s [underlined] Outline of History [end underlining] & making riotous comments on Amenhotep IV who she declares is a lidie with two h...Esther Julia Ford Herbert George WellsOutline of History, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the River all alone, as high as Puttny almost; and then ba...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1900-1945'Beira all day — am getting on with Surgical Diagnosis, & Tropical Diseases by Stitt.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Beira all day — am getting on with Surgical Diagnosis, & Tropical Diseases by Stitt.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward Rhodes StittThe Diagnosis and Treatment of Tropical DiseasesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Belchamber (1904) by Howard ("Howdie") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its principal character "Sainty" -- the Marquis and Earl of...Virginia Woolf Howard Overing SturgisBelchamberPrint: Book
1800-1849'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day, particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent to...Anne Romilly Henri-Benjamin Constant-de Rebecque[pamphlet on press freedom]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent t...Anne Romilly Gallois[pamphlet on press freedom]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent t...Samuel Romilly Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque[pamphlet on press freedom]Print: Pamphlet


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