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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespear...	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annals	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'	Mary Shelley	Tacitus	Annals	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'Over the pages of the philosophic Tacitus the hours of study pass rapidly as even those which ...	Robert Southey	Tacitus	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26- c.29 April 1794: 'I have ventured upon the drama at last. & chosen for my subject that memorable passage in Tacitus whic...	Robert Southey	Tacitus	Annals	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and terseness of expression, he was too compact, too muc...	Samuel Johnson	Tacitus	Histories	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and terseness of expression, he was too compact, too muc...	James Boswell	Tacitus	Histories	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[letter to Dr S.] It was the perusal of Tacitus, in Murphy's translation, which first excited the idea in my mind [of writing a book of moral education based on the beha...	Elizabeth Hamilton	Tacitus	Annals	Print: Book
	1800-1849	So we read together ... a part of the beautiful "Gerusalemme Liberata", of Tasso, in that most beautiful tongue.	Thomas Cooper	Tasso	Gerusalemme Liberata	Print: Book
	1600-1699 1700-1799	[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...	Elizabeth Lyttelton	Taverniere	Travels (unidentified)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Their [the Tennyson children's] imaginative natures gave them many sources of amusement. One of these lasted a long time: the writing of tales in letter form, to be put ...	Tennyson family	Tennyson (family members)	stories	Manuscript: Unknown
	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	Terence	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'	Mary Shelley	Terence	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish the Andria of Terence & Guy Mannering'	Mary Shelley	Terence	Andria	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the Eunuchus of Terence - walk - S reads Gibbon'	Mary Shelley	Terence	Eunuchus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the Heautontimorumenos of Terence'	Mary Shelley	Terence	Heautontimorumenos	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Montaigne and Terence'	Mary Shelley	Terence	[plays]	Print: Book

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