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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
 
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDie Gotter im ExilPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[Transcription] 'Das Herz ist mir bedruckt und sehnlich Gedenke ich der alten Zeit; Die Welt war damals noch so wohnlich Und ruhig lebten hin die Leut. Doch jetz...Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich HeineDie Heimkehr. XXXIX Buch der LiederPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Oct 6th. [...] Begin Johanna D'Arc [i.e. Die Jungfrau von Orleans] von Schiller.' [also records reading this text in journal entries for 7, 8, and 15 October...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerDie Jungfrau von OrleansPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Oct. 11th. Read Johanna D'Arc [i.e. Die Jungfrau von Orleans] with S-- [...] 'Saturday Oct. 13th. [...] read Johanna D Arc with S--'.Claire Clairmont and Percy Bysshe ShelleyJ. C. F. von SchillerDie Jungfrau von OrleansPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [......Elizabeth Barrett J. C. F. von SchillerDie Jungfrau von OrleansPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Novbr. [...] 28th. [...] After dinner read Ibycus & Die Kraniche with Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] ['Analysis' of this text follows in same entry].'Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerDie Kraniche des IbykusPrint: Book
1900-1945Some marginal annotation in pencil and ink in English on the following pages only: 15, 17, 28.Vernon Lee Karl GroosDie Lehre vom umfassenden SeeleneinPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] May 29th. [...] Read the 1st Letter in Leiden von Werther.' [Also records reading this text on 31 May 1821, and on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 June]. Claire Clairmont Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Leiden des jungen WertherPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Lieden des jungen WerthersPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantDie Metaphysik der SittenPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 March 1839: 'I like Schiller's Robbers better than any other play of his I have read.'Elizabeth Barrett J. C. F. von SchillerDie RauberPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantDie Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen VerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Nov. [...] 30th. [...] After tea [...] begin Mullner's Schuld with M. G[ambs]. We are interrupted by M. Baxter who spends the Evening.' [also records rea...Claire Clairmont Amand Gottfried Adolph MullnerDie Schuld: Trauerspiel in vier ActenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gotthilf Heinrich von SchubertDie Symbolik des TraumesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday October [...] 28th. [...] After dinner read a little of Werner's Templers with M. G[ambs]. but not much for I am very stupid with a bad head-ach [previous day's...Claire Clairmont Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias WernerDie Templer auf CypernPrint: Book
1800-1849'M reads the Sorcerer & Shelley writes his Romance.'Mary Godwin Veit WeberDie Teufelsbeschworung / The SorcererPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Some marginalia in English in pencil, especially on the following pages: 47, 51, 63, 177-8Vernon Lee Theodor DahmenDie Theorie des sch?nen von dem bewegungsprincip a...Print: Book
1850-1899'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie WahlverwandtschaftenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The older generation read "Die Zeit", a large format newspaper in Yiddish, printed in Hebrew characters, whose contents, in tone not unlike "The Times" of those days, yo...Jewish residents of the Gorbals [n/a]Die ZeitPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, odd...Mrs Glasser [n/a]Die ZeitPrint: Newspaper


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