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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'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart from work for his law examinations; though he admits t...Arnold Bennett OuidaunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...Mark Tellar Ouida [pseud][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799"Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly attached to Ovid, whose Metamorphoses I read at scho...William Wordsworth OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay Ovid[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where "Virgilium vidi tantum" originally occurs in Latin ...R.E. Prothero OvidTristia IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek Ovid[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdita' in the margin; p. 479 the text 'Quin etiam blan...John Drummond Erskine OvidMetamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the argument...Print: Book
1900-1945'I started doing some easy Ovid and loved it. He writes beautiful poety - [underline] when [end underline] I can understand it!'Hilary Spalding Ovid[poetry]Print: Book
1600-1699'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'Samuel Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'Elizabeth Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'the Storry [of Philemon and Baucis] pleases mee, none in Ovide soe much. I remember I cryed when I read it, mee thought they were the perfectest Characters of a con[ten]...Dorothy Osborne OvidMetamorphosesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I am getting on very well with Ovid.'Robert Louis Stevenson OvidunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassin...Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some lines of Ovid before breakfast'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbo...Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbo...Percy Bysshe Shelley OvidMetamorphoses - story of MyrrhaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi - Fortifiocca)[end i...Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphoses (3rd fable)Print: Book
1800-1849'read the 4th and 5th fables of Ovid'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphoses (4th and 5th fables)Print: Book
1800-1849'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads...Percy Bysshe Shelley OvidMetamorphoses (vii)Print: Book


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