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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'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.'Lord Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Plutarch, and drink cough mixtures.'Robert Louis Stevenson Plutarch unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Prescott again and made notes'George Eliot [pseud] [probably] William Prescott[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I read quite a lot of the "Antiquary" and felt quite virtuous.'Hilary Spalding Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAd?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Self Countrol & like it extremely all except some vulgarity meant to be jocular which tired me to death. but I think the principal character charming & well suppo...Charlotte Barrett Mary BruntonSelf-controlPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read several chapters of Miss Berry's work, a Comparative View of the English and French Nations, since the time of Charles II to the present day. I think this work a ...Charlotte Bury Mary Berry[historical work]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His tale of woe is expressed in the most moving and natu...Eugenia Wynne John Shore[elegies on deaths of wife and child]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His tale of woe is expressed in the most moving and natu...Eugenia Wynne William Henry Lyttelton[probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelto...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Spenser (Sonnet VIII)... I must send word of this to G...George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare (and others)The Passionate PilgrimPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I read Sir A. Lyall's "Essays", thanks to you! and reread them for they are so so good that I can't tear myself away from them. I want you to read one or two on religion...Gertrude Bell Alfred C. Lyall?Asiatic studies: religious and social : being a s...Print: Book
1850-1899'I read some papers & then went to bed ...'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I propose that you and he shall be closely acquainted by a...Thomas Carlyle Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'Mary Shelley David HumeEssays and Treatises on Several subjectsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'Mary Shelley Benjamin Thompson [trans.]German TheatrePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinEnquiry concerning . . . Political JusticePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyLaon and CythnaManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I read the "Great Randolfo" in the train yesterday and began "Black Oxen" — both very good.' Gertrude Bell Gertrude AthertonBlack OxenPrint: Book


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