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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
 
1600-1699'After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ings "Aglaura", which methinks is but a mean play - not...Samuel Pepys Sir John SucklingsAglauraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 3rd. [...] Read Agnes de Lilien by the sister in law of Schiller which seems to me to be a stupid Book. [...] 'Friday May 5th. Finish Agnes de Lil...Claire Clairmont Caroline WohlzogenAgnes de LilienPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 31 July 1848:

'You will have seen some of the notices of "Wildfell Hall." I wish my sister felt the unfavo...		Charlotte Brontë Anne BrontëAgnes GreyUnknown
1800-1849"Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.".."I went into such an enthusiasm over the original, and es...Harriet Martineau TacitusAgricolaPrint: Book
1800-1849'James Montgomery, Esq., a poet of great merit, edited at this period the Sheffield Iris, a paper of wide circulation, and penned a most flattering review of “Airedale,...James Montgomery John NicholsonAiredale in Ancient Times, Elwood and Elvina, The ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."'George Eliot [pseud] Sophocles AjaxPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.Percy Bysshe Shelley SophoclesAjaxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 9th Canto of Ariosto - Finish Phormio - S reads Ajax'Percy Bysshe Shelley SophoclesAjaxPrint: Book
1900-1945Be not vexed that I have only just read 'Akhnaton'. Of late months I have had so much in the way of absolutely imperative perusal that I’ve got frightfully behind. I am...Arnold Bennett Adelaide PhilpottsAkhnatonPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ...Hugh Miller AladdinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'John Ruskin [unknown]AladdinPrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... Alaham in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleAlahamPrint: Book
1700-1799Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I th...Sarah Osborn Joseph AlleineAlarm for the UnconvertedPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read "Alashtar" with attention and great pleasure.'George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Gally KnightAlashtar, an Arabian TaleManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'A Mr Gally Knight the Author of a Book of very fair Poetry, told me a Story which He thought would suit me [as the basuis of a poem]'George Crabbe Henry Gally KnightAlashtar, an Arabian Tale [?]Print: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so f...Thomas Westwood Percy Bysshe ShelleyAlastorPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads the alcestis [sic] of Euripides.'Percy Bysshe Shelley EuripidesAlcestePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Alcestes'Percy Bysshe Shelley EuripidesAlcestesPrint: Book
1800-1849I liked my solitude, even tho? I had no one to say so to - & in spite of La Bruy?re & Cowper! ? Nearly finished the Alcestis. I will finish it tomorrow, before breakfastElizabeth Barrett EuripidesAlcestisPrint: Book
1800-1849At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninu...Elizabeth Barrett EuripidesAlcestisPrint: Book


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