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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
 
1900-1945'This afternoon I was off duty, so went to the cliffs on the other side of the village. Got down behind a hedge in the shade and read "Cycling". Many German and Chi...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]CyclingPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbelin...Virginia Stephen William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline just to see if there mightn't be more in the great ...Virginia Stephen William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at Fritham and elsewhere in speaking of a certain great...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the progr...Helen Rawlings William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Byron's example has formed a sort of Upper House of poetry. There is Lord Leveson Gower a very clever young man. Lord Porchester too, nephew to Mrs Scott of Harden, a ...Walter Scott William ShakespeareCymbelineUnknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la BarcaCyprianoPrint: Book
1600-1699'I walked to the Temple and stayed at Starky's my bookseller's (looking over Dr Heylins new book of the life of Bishop Laud, a strange book of church history of his time)...Samuel Pepys Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then he to read to me the "Life of Archbishopp Laud", wrote by D. Heylin; which is a shrowd book, but that which I believe will do the Bishop in general no great goo...Richard Gibson Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'and there I made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the "Life of the Archbishop of Caterbury".' Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth reading, as informing a man plainly in the posture ...Elizabeth Pepys Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus; or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1900-1945'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again.... On his shelf was ... Edmund Rostand's [italics] Cy...Cyril Lionel Robert James Edmond RostandCyrano de BergeracPrint: Book


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