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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pocket companions. the republican Bard & the philosopher...Robert Southey Cesare Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana Dei Delitti e Delle Pene (On Crimes and Punishment...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley AthenaeusDeipnosophistaiPrint: Book
1900-1945'last night [Barker] read me Coleridge's "Ode on Dejection" which is very beautiful in parts. It exactly expresses those bad negative states in which one looks and sees n...George Barker Samuel Taylor ColeridgeDejection: An OdePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Rossi [ed. notes that this perhaps...George Gordon Lord Byron Guiseppe BossiDel Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinion...Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Lovely lines - but I knew them before ... the two last, two years ago in ... Schneidemn's Greek fragments - a book Frank Lushington had and which I ever since intended t...Alfred Tennyson F W SchneidewinDelectus Presis Graeconim elegiacae, iambinis, mel...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the proposal of that classical cuckold Perticari ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Count Giulio PerticariDell'amor patrio di DantePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday October 27th. [...] Begin Istoria Civile di Napoli da Ginannone.' [records of reading this text also appear in journal entries for 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14 November ...Claire Clairmont Pietro GiannoneDell'Istoria civile del regno di NapoliPrint: Book
1850-1899'After lunch I went to the Borghese Villa. Aren't the gardens a dream! I had my Morelli with me and spent a long peaceful time looking at the pictures with the help of hi...Gertrude Bell Giovanni Morelli (pseud. Ivan Lermolieff)Della pittura italiana: Studii storico critici di ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Donato GiannottiDella repubblica fiorentinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Walk with S. - he reads some of the tales of Sacchetti aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Franco SacchettiDelle novellePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gabriello ChiabreraDelle OperePrint: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] translated ten epitaphs from Chiabrera's Opere ... probably ...between 26 Oct. and 4 Nov. 1809.'William Wordsworth Gabriello ChiabreraDelle Opere di Gabriello ChiabreraPrint: Book
1800-1849Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 6 June 1843: 'I read Vasari, all day -- yesterday[.] Why are Vasari's Lives so popular [--] why have they gone through s...Benjamin Robert Haydon Giorgio VasariDelle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 4 February 1847: 'By the grace of M. Ferucci, we have Vasari from the library, & are ploughing through it [...] ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGiorgio VasariDelle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Maria Josepha Holroyd in her teens was "enchanted" with the "all for Love" of de Stael's "Delphine", which in mature years she viewed more critically (if still with enjo...Maria Josepha Holroyd Germaine de StaelDelphinePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mrs Keith of Ravelstone remembered, as a girl in London perhaps in the 1760s, hearing Aphra Behn's fiction "read aloud for the amusement of large circles of the first an...Mrs ? Keith (of Ravelstone) Aphra BennDelphinePrint: Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (February 1803): 'I have been crying my eyes out over "le Nouveau pere de famille." I wonder I did not hear...Lady Harriet Cavendish Germaine de StaelDelphinePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Nice, January 1803: 'In spite of my headaches yesterday, I contrived to read nearly three volumes of Madame de Stael's Delphine [...] It is...Mary Berry Germaine De StaelDelphine (three volumes)Print: Book
1850-1899?Meanwhile I have a book from you, wh. I ought to have acknowledged. I guess that Julia did my duty & I did it better than I should. But, though late, I will say thank yo...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellDemocracy and other addressesPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioDemofoontePrint: Unknown


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