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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 Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Gospel of St MatthewPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Bible'Mary Shelley [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'Mary Shelley [n/a]ProverbsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Mary Shelley [n/a]EcclesiastesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Mary Shelley [n/a]Song of SolomonPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Julie - S returns [from Leghorn] - he reads Isaiah aloud to me.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]JeremiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]EzekielPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Tobit aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]TobitPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Wisdom of Solomon in the evening aloud. Reads Locke and Political Justice.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Book of Wisdom of SolomonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Quarterly'Mary Shelley [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'S. reads the Greek Romances'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Greek RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Greek RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finish Greek Romances'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Greek RomancesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'Mary Shelley [n/a]IndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Greek - not well - Indicators'Mary Shelley [n/a]IndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'I got vp and was lett blood: then I made me readie and went to priuat praier and reeadinge of the bible, as I was wonte'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book


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