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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'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence'Mary Shelley TerenceAdelphiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'Mary Shelley TerenceAdelphiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'Mary Shelley TerencePhormioPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mille et une nuits'Mary Shelley TerencePhormioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'Mary Shelley TerenceHecyraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Terence'Mary Shelley TerenceHecyraPrint: Book
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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 TerreTravels (unidentified)Print: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Cornelia Sorabji ThackerayunknownPrint: 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 TheocritusunknownPrint: 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 TheocritusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. It was my favourite at College. There is a rich pro...Thomas Babington Macaulay TheocritusSeventh IdyllPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Theocritus[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot [pseud] Theocritus[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.George Eliot [pseud.] TheocritusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fa...George Eliot Theocritus22nd IdyllPrint: Book
1700-1799'I no longer look upon Theocritus as a romantic writer; he has only given a plain image of the way of life amongst the peasants of his country; who, before oppression had...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Theocritus Unknown
1700-1799'Tis true they have no public places but the bagnios...I was three days ago at one of the finest in the town, and had the opportunity of seeing a Turksih bride recieved t...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu TheocritusIdyll 18Unknown
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of Shelley's reading in early 1816. Later in the year t...Percy Bysshe Shelley Theocritus Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley TheocritusIdyllsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley TheocritusIdyllsPrint: Book


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