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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" Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages."Lady Eleanor Butler MetastasioBetulia LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (December 1804): 'I have been reading a great deal of Italian, there are a thousand beauties in ...Lady Harriet Cavendish MetastasioIsaccoPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754: 'After that exquisitely beautiful sonnet [by Carlo Maria Maggi, opening 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'] yo...Elizabeth Carter Metastasio'love song' opening 'Ecco qual fiero istante'Unknown
1800-1849'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.Charlotte Bury Metastasio [pseud.] Print: Book
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[Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.'Edward Morgan Forster Michaudarticle on PelagiusPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putting it into my hand to read; but Lord, it is a poor s...Elizabeth Pepys Middleton[Middleton's memorandum]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Tuesday, 1 August 1826: 'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me about a dozen and dipping into them scrambled throug...Walter Scott MiddletonMichaelmas TermPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815: '"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is in parts very fine and in others as bad. It is writ...Harriet Countess Granville MilmanFazioPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815: '"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is in parts very fine and in others as bad. It is writ...Lord Lansdowne MilmanFazioPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble to John Murray (1832): 'The article in the Quarterly on my "Francis the First," more than satisfied me, for it made me out a great deal cleverer than ever...Fanny Kemble MilmanReview of Fanny Kemble, Francis the FirstPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'.Thomas Babington Macaulay MilnerEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read the four PIL which we have had. They seem to give all the information required accurately and clearly, but sometimes they have tried to put things too cl... Ministry of Informationpublic information leafletsPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Intellectually, he seems to have been most concerned with the affairs of Middleton Murry's new periodical, the "Adelphi". . . . doesn't like Murry's layout and advertis...Arnold Bennett Mioddleton MurryAdelphi, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were...Mary Russell Mitford Mirabeau Print: Book
1800-1849"Under his instruction - while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and Moliere's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' - I caught hold of such good French pron...Thomas Cooper MoliereLe Bourgeois GentilhommePrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Moliere[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 January 1838: 'Read "Les Precieuses Ridicules," which did not amuse me very much; though acted I can fancy it capital.'Harriet Martineau MoliereLes Precieuses RidiculesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 9th [...] Read [...] Le Tartuffe of Moliere'.Claire Clairmont MoliereLe TartuffePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two ...Claire Clairmont MoliereLe Bourgeois GentilhommePrint: Book


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