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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'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les ho...Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 1st. Read Ormond.' Claire Clairmont Charles Brockden BrownOrmond; or, the Secret WitnessPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in the evening. Write a little Gre[ek] & learn four t...Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in the evening. Write a little Gre[ek] & learn four t...Claire Clairmont (classical) Greek textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in the evening. Write a little Gre[ek] & learn four t...Claire Clairmont Matthew Gregory LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday September [...] 30th. [...] After dinner read to Johnny the story of Tarlton.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'Tarlton'Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' [records finishing Goethe on 9 August 1825].Claire Clairmont unknownLife of GoethePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.'Claire Clairmont Chretien-Hermann GambsLecture on Modern HistoryUnknown
1900-1945'Friday, 19th February, Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immense amount of talking, and were theatrical than they ...Gerald Moore Hilaire BellocPath to RomePrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 1st January, Completed my paper on Mazzini. Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap) ?Autocrat of the Breakfast table? (O.W.Holmes).' Gerald Moore J.W. MarriottOne Act Plays of TodayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 25 June[.] Raining, and we are sheltering in dugouts in the trenches we are repairing. Been out six weeks now under shellfire more or less the whole time; to wor...William Fisher unknownUnknown
1900-1945'Friday, 29th January, I do not like ?Brand?. A religion that takes no account of actuality is no use to humanity. And, after all I think that religion was made for man...Gerald Moore Henrik IbsenBrandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 2nd April, Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find myself hoping that someday the grass will grow again ov...Gerald Moore Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 5th March, I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the classic books of criticism, as apart from their lite...Gerald Moore Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Autocrat of the Breakfast TablePrint: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Richard PocockeDescription of the East and Some other Countries,Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Richard TwissTravels through Portugal and Spain Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson John George KeyslerTravels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzer...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Henri Marie Ducrotay de BlainvilleTravels through Holland, Germany and Switzerland, ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Joseph AddisonRemarks on Several Parts of ItalyPrint: Book


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