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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
 
1800-1849Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity to prosecute.'George Gordon Lord Byron review of Byron, The Age of BronzePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an article in the Chronica Greca [paper actually entitled th...George Gordon Lord Byron Hellenica ChronicaPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 17 May 1800: 'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownBalladsUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 29 May 1800: 'In the morning worked in the garden a little, read King John.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 May 1800: 'Read Macbeth in the morning ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 19 May 1800: 'Read Timon of Athens.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 1 June 1800: ' ... a sweet mild morning. Read Ballads; went to church.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownBalladsUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 3 June 1800: 'I worked in the garden before dinner. Read R[ichar]d Second -- was not well after dinner ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareRichard the SecondPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 4 June 1800: 'I walked to the lake-side in the morning, took up plants, and sate upon a stone reading Ballads.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownBalladsUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 6 June 1800: 'Sate out of doors reading the whole afternoon...'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 27 July 1800: 'In the morning, I read Mr. Knight's Landscape.'Dorothy Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightThe Landscape: A Didactic Poem in Three BooksPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 31 July 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coleridge] ... sailed down to Loughrigg. Read poems on t...Dorothy Wordsworth unknown[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 1 August 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coleridge] all went together to Mary Point [in Bainriggs ...Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, S. T. ColeridgeWilliam Wordsworth[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 17 August 1800: 'Wm read us The Seven Sisters on a stone.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe Seven SistersUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 20 August 1800: 'Read Wallenstein and sent it off ...'Dorothy Wordsworth Friedrich von SchillerWallenstein (in translation by S. T. Coleridge)Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o'clock -- mended stockings and Wm. read Peter Bell. ...William Wordsworth William WordsworthPeter BellUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o'clock -- mended stockings and Wm. read Peter Bell. ...William Wordsworth William WordsworthTo JoannaUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 30 August 1800: 'I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson.'Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 31 August 1800: 'At 11 o'clock [pm] Coleridge came ... We sate and chatted till 1/2-past three, W[illiam]. in his dressing-g...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, and the Firgrove, to Coleridge ... The morning was de...William Wordsworth William WordsworthTo JoannaUnknown


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