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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'Exhilarated with a terrible sadness, after reading "Arise to Conquer", I wondered if, when young men have done with the fighting and can come forward to do some of the t... [unknown]Arise to conquerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'Percy Bysshe Shelley Christoph Martin WielandAristipp und einige seiner ZeitgenossenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland.' [subsequent readings from Aristippe recorded in entries for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, ...Claire Clairmont Christoph Martin WielandAristipp und einige seiner ZeitgenossenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'Mary Shelley Christoph Martin WielandAristipp und einige ZeitgenossenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence'Mary and Percy ShelleyVincenzo MontiAristodemoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'Mary Shelley Vincenzo MontiAristodemoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than...Sarah Harriet Burney Vincenzo MontiAristodemoPrint: Book
1700-1799I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, with a number of badly drawn cuts in it explanatory of...Francis Place Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece; in Three Parts;...Print: Book
1900-1945'[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At last we understood what was meant when, during Scriptu...Stan Dickens [anon]Aristotle's MasterpiecePrint: Book
1900-1945'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's Masterpiece over general giggles: "It contained expl...Mary Bertenshaw [anon]Aristotle's MasterpiecePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesAristotle, a Chapter from the History of ScienceManuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864
1800-1849'read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy'Mary Shelley Christoph Martin WielandAristppe und einige seiner ZeitgenossenPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes how the nineteenth-century handloom weaver Wiliam Farish '"with Walkingham's arithmetic, and a slate and pencil at my side ... used to con over the pr...William Farish Walkinghamarithmetic textbookPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Armata, said to be Lord Erskine's, very unworthy of his name 'tho his politics are displayed which are pretty nearly my opinions and I should therefore be more incl...Benjamin Newton [Erskine or T.E.] Armata, a FragmentPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Armata - read Homer'Mary Shelley Thomas ErskineArmata: a fragmentPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on...Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas ErskineArmata: a fragmentPrint: Book
1600-1699'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clear...Isaac Archer William PerkinsArmilla Aurea, or The Golden ChainPrint: Book
1800-1849'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the...Thomas Carter [n/a]Arminian MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Sylvanus Reynolds Arms of WipplecrackPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about parti...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Army ListPrint: Book


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