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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'read over the Ovid to Jefferson'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'Mary Shelley Ovid[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical drama Cain] -- but I perceive one upon you in the paper...George Gordon Lord Byron Oxoniensis [pseud.]Remonstrance against CainPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'[Ada Byron's] mother wrote [to Ada's tutor]: "There are no weeds in her mind; it has to be planted. Her greatest defect is want of order, which mathematics will remedy. ...Ada Byron PaisleyGeometryPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale PaleyWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington PaleyEvidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (1806): 'Mama is too good to me. She tells me she shall like to read with me. We have begun Paley's Theolo...Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and Lady Harriet Cavendish Paley'Theology'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and...Harriet Martineau PalfreySermonsPrint: 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 PalgraveLonger PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Christmas Day. Read several Carols this day from the collection pub. by Parker.'John Cole Parker[Collection of Carols]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read some of Pascal's "Pensees". They show great knowledge of men [...] they are very gloomy...Harriet Martineau PascalPenseesPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Montesquieu (Decadence des Romains).' Alfred Tennyson Pascal Print: Book
1800-1849'I began to work myself a Chemisette - read "Frere Paschal" and laughed most violently as well as Eugenia'..Harriet Wynne Paschal - or perhaps this is the title of a workFrere Paschal - or perhaps Paschal is the authorPrint: Book
1700-1799'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read th...Samuel Johnson Patrick[biblical commentaries - old testament]Print: Book
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespear...Lawrence Durrell Peel[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'The evening before I left, walked to Falsgrave and on making a call looked over Perceval's "Account of Ceylon".'John Cole PercevalAccount of CeylonPrint: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] composed a loose translation of Petrarch, Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento in 1789-90 while learning Italian with Agostino Isola.'William Wordsworth PetrarchSe la mia vita da l'aspro tormento (sonnet)Unknown


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