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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
 
1850-1899I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ago, yet was published only the other day - for whom...Margaret Oliphant SwinburneThrenodyPrint: Newspaper
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that n...Samuel Johnson SylvanusFirst Book of the IliadPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale Symington Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your quondam Friend's, Dr. Symmonds' life of Milton, on some future occasion I will tell you what I think of it.'William Wordsworth SymmondsLife of John Milton, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a ...Elizabeth Barrett SynesiusPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a ...Hugh Stuart Boyd SynesiusPoemsPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Tacitus Print: Book
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Tacitus[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "the siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to M...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusSiege of Jerusalem, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Journals of Mary Shelley "M. & S. walk to the shore of the lake & read the description of the seige of Jerusalem in Tacitus"Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusHistories Book VPrint: Book
1800-1849"Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.".."I went into such an enthusiasm over the original, and es...Harriet Martineau TacitusAgricolaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'.Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finis...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'.Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusGermaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Germania and "memoire d'un Detenu".'Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusGermaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there & reads Germania - Several books arrive among others ...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusGermaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus'Mary Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'Mary Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book


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