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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'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipate me altogether.'John Ruskin E.V. Rippingille [ed.]Artist's and Amateur's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'John Ruskin E.V. Rippingille [ed.]Artist's and Amateur's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.'John Ruskin E.V. RippingilleArtist's and Amateur's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
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1800-1849		?Cumberland attempted and failed to revive the classical English novel. We sit down in fact by Cumberlands? fireside and listen to his long dull stories as we would to th...Charles Robert Maturin Richard CumberlandArundelPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a beam oer the face of the waters may glow, ...'Bowly groupThomas MooreAs a beam oer the face of the waters may glowUnknown
1900-1945'It was an exhilarating coincidence that my re-reading of H.T.'s "As It Was" should follow just after I had made my diary entry on the "spiritual" type of women suggested...William Soutar H. ThomasAs It WasPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpid...Virginia Woolf E. F. BensonAs We Were: A Victorian Peep-ShowPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Like It.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 23 June 1802, 'It is now 20 minutes past 10 -- a sunshiny morning. I walked to the top of the hill and sate under a wall...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sate by a nice snug fire, and William read Spenser, an...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I think good comedies.'Thomas Turner William ShakespeareAs you like itPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I went at once to the bookseller's which sold "The Penn...Edwin Muir William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 5th April, I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but nice. ?Under the Greenwood Tree? and ?Blow, blow t...Gerald Moore William ShakespeareAs you Like itPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'.Mary Godwin William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] & climbed some wild rocks -- & sat the...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931: 'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending you a wire to ask what is the truth about Jacques --...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 24 June 1906: 'Here an enterprising female has started a Shakespeare Reading Society. We read As You Like It on Friday. It was no...Shakespeare Reading SocietyWilliam ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1850-1899'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".'John Ruskin William ShakespeareAs you like itPrint: Book


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