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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
 
1900-1945F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evan...T. C. Elliott Shakespeare and FletcherThe Two Noble KinsmenPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evan...Katharine S. Evans Shakespeare and FletcherThe Two Noble KinsmenPrint: Book
1900-1945F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part of Arcite Thos C Elliott taking Palamon and Mrs Evan...E. Dorothy Brain Shakespeare and FletcherThe Two Noble Kinsmen
1700-1799?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, ...James Lackington Sheftesbury[?] Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Ti...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'By Mr B Sheridan Esq to his Wife'.Catherine Austen Sheridan[verses to his wife]Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Shorthouse Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Into white clothes but it was not very warm. Read Shway Yoe all day and played Bridge after dinner.' Gertrude Bell Shway Yoe (pseud. Sir George Scott)The Burman: His Life and Notions Print: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay Silius ItalicusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mme de Simiane's letters are worth reading, but in hers one perceives the contrast of the 'bel esprit' of the Province and one of the Capital.'Jessie Sismondi Simiane[unknown]
1800-1849'I should think the first volume of his [Sismondi's] "Literature du Midi de l'Europe" would be of some use in collateral information, and at any rate that is amusing.'Eleanor Anne Porden SismondiLiterature du Midi de l'EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman, 26 June 1816: 'From England, in 1816, it is delightful to retire, even to Italy in its most disorganized periods. I have not yet arri...George Grote Sismondihistory of Italy (vol. 1)Print: Book
1800-1849'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'Anne Isabella Milbanke SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
1500-1599'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "Howleglas" now in the Bodleian, in which he wrote the f...Gabriel Harvey SkogginunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of the four Empires, and some other Authors, he drew f...James Usher SleidansBook of the Four EmpiresPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] SmithUniversal HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 26 October 1831: 'Here we are [at Portsmouth] still fixd by the inexorable wind [...] I engaged in a new novel by Mr. Smith calld New Forest. It is written ...Walter Scott SmithNew ForestPrint: Book
1800-1849Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra'Anne Lister SophloclesElectraPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides o...Thomas Babington Macaulay SophoclesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay SophoclesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 to 1527, end of Philoctetes of Sophlocles, & afterwar...Anne Lister SophoclesPhiloctetes


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