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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[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on...Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'Virginia Woolf George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday, I underwent one of the greatest experiences in my life - at a "Poets Reading" in aid of charity. The whole thing made one feel like a bird that has blundered ...Edith Sitwell Robert NicholsDon JuanManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945 I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byron’s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian preface. I am bound to say, with all my modesty, that it t...Arnold Bennett Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Early in July [1819] appeared the first part of Don Juan. "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected, wrote Annabella [Anne Isabella, Byron's estranged wife]....Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 July 1819: 'I think parts of "Don Juan" more beautiful than anything he has written, some wit and...Harriet Countess Granville George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 November 1837: 'I have received "Don Juan" and the October Quarterly [Review]. ... In thanking you for the two volumes of Byron belon...Caroline Norton George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to continue Don Juan ... She had read the two first [cantos]...Countess Teresa Guiccioli George Gordon Lord ByronDon Juan (Cantos I and II)Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Fa...Mary Russell Mitford Casimir DelavigneDon Juan d'Autriche, ou la VocationPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I read Don Juan d'Autriche -- & looked into a good deal, .. or perhaps not a good deal, .. of Casimir D...Elizabeth Barrett Casimir DelavigneDon Juan d'Autriche, ou la VocationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.'Claire Clairmont George Gordon, Lord ByronDon Juan [Cantos I and II]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lady Caroline Lamb informed [John] Murray [Byron's publisher]: "You cannot think how clever I think 'Don Juan' is, in my heart."'Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronDon Juan, Cantos I and IIPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I am agreeably disappointed by finding "Don Juan" very little offensive. It is by no means worse than "Childe Harol...John Wilson Croker George Gordon, Lord ByronDon Juan: cantos I-IIPrint: Book
1700-1799"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever boo...William Wordsworth Miguel de Cervantes SavedraDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu: 'The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Er...William Wordsworth Miguel CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciate Goethe, but because I was interested in the Devil"...Frederick Rogers Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book


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