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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'Reading a book by Alexr Dumas fils called "Antonine", a stupid book in my opinion.'Albert Battiscombe Alexandre DumasAntoninePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read only Italian books - and have just finished Niccolini's Foscarini, which is a fine masculine, energetic performance, & gave me much pleasure, and makes me admire ...Sarah Harriet Burney Giovanni Battista NiccoliniAntonio FoscariniPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nonsense! Had Shakspeare [ sic] no eyes to see the sky w...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader that Cleopatra's story of the salt fish on Antony's...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1850-1899''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: T...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Antony and Cleopatra".'John Mitchel William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespear...Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Distant from us by 300 yards … snipers were continually firing, and rockets … lit up the night outside … we had two days like that, and played Auction Bridge, talked...Ivor Bertie Gurney William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Lord LyttonAntony: A Record of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat and read Antony, by Lord Lytton.'Vere Hodgson Victor LyttonAntony: A Record of YouthPrint: Book
1850-1899'Can you tell me anything of a book, published or rather printed, by the late Earl of Bridgewater at his press in Paris. It was in the French language - & contained all t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Henry EgertonApercu Historique et genealogiquePrint: Book
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1800-1849		William Blake, on margin of his copy of Johann Lavater, Aphorisms: "'I hop no one will call what I have written cavilling ... For I write from the warmth of my heart, & c...William Blake Johann LavaterAphorismsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James, in 25 July 1896 letter to Edmund Gosse, praises Pierre Louys' novel "Aphrodite: moeurs antiques", which he has read in a copy apparently borrowed from Gosse.Henry James Pierre LouysAphrodite: moeurs antiquesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Early in 1852 my father and mother went on a visit to one of his old College friends, Mr Rashdall the clergyman of Malvern [...] While they were there my father read Dr ...Alfred Tennyson Dr WordsworthApocalypsePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Apocalypsis graece Vol II (of 2)Print: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 17 October (in letter begun 16 October) 1790, on visit from his friend, and Berry's cousin, Miss Seton that day: 'As she was going she desir...Horace Walpole Matthew PriorApollo and DaphnePrint: Book
1800-1849We [EB & Mr Boyd] read passages from Gregory?s apologetick, - comparing his marks with mine, in different copies, - & came to the conclusion, that our tastes certainly do...Elizabeth Barrett GregoryApologetickPrint: Book


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