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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
 
1900-1945'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'George Burrow anon Arden of Faversham Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonAreopagitica: a Speech of Mr John Milton for the L...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin John MiltonAreopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the ...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'You say "Arethusa" is lovely: have you bought it or got a copy from the library? In any case I am very glad you have started it. Isn't Omobono a lovely character, ...Clive Staples Lewis Francis Marion CrawfordArethusaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Arethusa'Verena Vera Pennefather F. Marion CrawfordArethusaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Arethusa" to Dick and Babs, then they went to a party at the Hales.'Verena Pennefather Percy Bysse ShelleyArethusaPrint: Book
1900-1945'We went to Walton and then to Cullens to get "tuck" for Dick. After lunch packed Dick's box. Then read "Arethusa". Babs coughed nearly all night until I gave him a...Verena Pennefather Percy Bysse ShelleyArethusaPrint: Book
1900-1945'After lunch we sat in the garden & I cut out shorts for Babs, & read "Arethusa" to the boys for a bit.'Verena Pennefather Percy Bysse ShelleyArethusaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'I doubted not that you would agree with me in thinking very highly of quaint old Quarles. you shall s...Robert Southey Francis QuarlesArgalus and Parthenia Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge John BarclayArgenisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge John BarclayArgenisPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper to prayers and to bed'Samuel Pepys John BarclayArgenisPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads Appolonius [sic] Rhodius'Percy Bysshe Shelley Apollonius RhodiusArgonauticaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giul...Percy Bysshe Shelley Apollonius RhodiusArgonauticaPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have just started the "Argonautica" the Greek poem on the same subject,and though I haven't got very far — only in fact to the launching of the Argo — it is shap...Clive Staples Lewis Apollonius RhodiusArgonauticaPrint: Book
1900-1945'We continued riding towards Leijun over the flat, stony plateau with scarcely a shrub to break the monotony. It was so monotonous that I read an "Argosy" Magazine ...Doreen Ingrams [n/a] [n/a]Argosy MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'At Wangaratta we got the daily papers, in the Argus there was a [?] advocating my being sent to report on the prisons of Europe & America & suggesting to the Government ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that it would appear from the conduct of the House as if...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of "The Battle of Dorking". It was styled "The great disaster" & purported to be a report of the destruct...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After Tea I took a stroll through the town and then went to Collingwood on my return I looked in at the Reading Room of the Mechanics, amused myself by waiting a conside...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper


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