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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'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...Thomas Carlyle LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley is not well - he reads Lucan'Percy Bysshe Shelley LucanBellum Civile / PharsaliaPrint: 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 LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Pu...Mary Shelley LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'Mary Shelley LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Fininsh [sic] Lucan's Pharsalia'Mary Shelley LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would be astonishd at the number of volumes I have read i...Robert Southey LucanWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pocket companions. the republican Bard & the philosopher...Robert Southey LucanunknownPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne's translation of Lucan, Pharsalia, IV.519-20.Elizabeth Lyttelton LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Harriet Martineau, in letter of 8 July 1862: 'If Mr. Lucas's book should come in your way ("Secularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of History") do look at the chapter last...Harriet Martineau LucasSecularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay LucianunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as I had done reading Latin. By the timeI began with Lu...Anne Lister Lucian Print: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill Lucian Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after...Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucian[satirical / philosophical dialogues]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucian[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.Percy Bysshe Shelley LucianunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucian[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes o...Mary Godwin Lucian[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'Mary Godwin Lucian[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a french translation of Lucien [sic]'Mary Shelley Lucian[unknown]Print: Book


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