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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 could not do without a Syringa, for the sake of Cowper's Line.'Jane Austen William CowperThe TaskPrint: Book
1800-1849'When I left my home for the first time, I suddenly passed out of the excitements of my Windsor life into the school-boy's ordinary abstraction from the outer world. I he...Charles Knight The GlobePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknown[Greek]Unknown
1800-1849'Shelley draws & Mary reads the monk all evening.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Matthew Gregory LewisThe Monk: a romancePrint: Book
1800-1849'read two odes of Anacreon before breakfast'.Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Anacreon[odes]Print: Book
1800-1849'PBS reads Diogenes Laertius.'Perct Bysshe Shelley Diogenes LaertiusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read it.'Jane Austen Thomas GisborneAn Enquiry into the Duties of the Female SexPrint: Book
1800-1849'The papers announce the Marriage of the Rev: Edward Bather, Rector of some place in Shropshire to a Miss Emma Halifax.'Jane Austen newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Shelley reads the Ancient Mariner aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley is very unwell - he reads one canto of Queen Mab to me.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen Mab: a philosophical poem with notesManuscript: Unknown, owned by author
1800-1849'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Edward du BoisSt. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth a...Print: Book
1800-1849'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas Jefferson HoggMemoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, translated from...Print: Book
1800-1849'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the wrongs of woman.'Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Mary WollstonecraftThe Wrongs of Woman; or MariaPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening Shelley reads Abbe Barruel to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Abbe BarruelHistory of the IlluminatiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Posthumous works.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Mary WollstonecraftPosthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Zastrozzi'.Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Percy Bysshe ShelleyZastrozziPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads the History of the Illuminati out of Baruel to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Abbe BarruelMemoirs illustrating the History of JacobinismPrint: Book
1800-1849'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement for him - as I am very anxious for his being at once ...Jane Austen newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement for him - as I am very anxious for his being at once ...James anon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book



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