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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
 
1700-1799'Finished the 1st Book of Quinctilian "De Institutione Oratoria"...'Thomas Green QuintilianInstitutesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis'Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.'Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'Percy Bysshe Shelley Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler RacineTheatro et oevres de RacinePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr de Bombelles read to us this evening a French Tragedy of Racine "Andromaque" that lecture gave me pleasure'.[Mr] de Bombelles Racine (pseud.)AndromaquePrint: Unknown
1700-1799[We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive remarks on the progress of those arts that seem partic...Anna Larpent Ramsaya dialogue on tastePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the letters. How dull they are! how many letters writte...Charlotte Bury Raphael[letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'In the absence of C.E. Stansfield Mrs Stansfield read extracts from Raymond chosen by C.E.S.' Pattie Stansfield Raymond[a text on spiritualism]Print: Book
1800-1849'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm...Elizabeth Inchbald RescoeThe Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book


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