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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
 
1800-1849The Hon.J. W. Ward to Mary Berry, 11 May 1814: 'I have bought Mr Schlegel's book about the drama, which they have translated and printed here [Paris], but I have not had ...The Hon. J. W. Ward Schlegelwork on dramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday March 19th. [...] Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- Read the second Volume of [...] Schlegel's [Criticism]'.Claire Clairmont SchlegelCriticismPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday March 27th [...] Read Schlegel Criticism'.Claire Clairmont Schlegel Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday March 30th. [...] Finish Schlegel's Critiscism [sic].'Claire Clairmont SchlegelCriticismPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 12 January 1842: 'In reading "Tom Cringle's Log" to my father, the other day, I find that Mr Scott, the author, speaks of t...Mary Russell Mitford Scott'Tom Cringle's Log'Print: Unknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Another little poem [collected in Palgrave's "Golden Treasury"] greatly moved him: perhaps he was not very...Alfred Tennyson ScottThe Maid of NeidpathUnknown
1900-1945'I see Seabridge's letter from South Africa; it is very interesting. There are details about many people who escaped and about the casualties. [quotes from letter]'Thomas Kitching Seabridge[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning sev...Samuel Johnson Seed[Sermons]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 17 February 1825: 'I feel already the hundred comforts of the [Mardi Gras] carnival being...Harriet Countess Granville SegurLife of BuonapartePrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 16 December 1807: 'Lady Elizabeth is reading Semple's travels through Spain and says they are excessively...Lady Elizabeth Foster Semple'travels through Spain'Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the opening lines of the intended tragedy of Sardanapalus.'George Gordon Lord Byron SenecatragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.'George Gordon Lord Byron SenecatragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]Percy Bysshe Shelley Seneca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Seneca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Seneca[unknown]Print: 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)'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Seneca[unknown]Print: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, a Meditation on Seneca's maxim 'verum gaudium res severa est' (Epistulae morales, 23, 4), headed 'sen. Res severa et verum gaud...Elizabeth Lyttelton SenecaEpistulae morales, 23, 4Print: Book
1800-1849'There is a new edition of Mme Sevigne, 12 octavo vols. of which I read every one, and with delight...'Jessie Sismondi Sevigne de, MadameLetters of Madame Sevigne to her daughters and her...
1900-1945 'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs really do sound like them now, although I still get sti...Peter Pears ShakespeareArt of Singing, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1700-1799'When I come here we play at battlecock and shuttledore and mama reads Shakespear in the evening[.] When she goes with [Ann?] up stairs to sleep John Fred Will and I gene...Henrietta Frances Ponsonby ShakespeareunknownUnknown


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