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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
 
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on board boat travelling up 'valley of the Mohawk']: he...Edward Trelawny Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever seen". When he refused to give it up, the warder said h...Arthur Symons Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was w...Elizabeth Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage befor...Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1600-1699'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how people may be surprized'Samuel Pepys Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Don Quixote & Calderon'Mary Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dicti...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but he has the loose, far scattered vitality of the great...Virginia Woolf Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday ...W.H.(Bill) Tilman Miguel (de) CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister ...Janet Case Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to lose his sight [...] He took to a milk diet for some ...Alfred Tennyson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die a violent death, as has been generally fancied. He ...Samuel Johnson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's "Treasure Isl...Charles Causley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book


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