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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
 
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies George Bernard ShawFabian EssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his work. H.M. Wallis gave a reading from "The Doctor's...Charles Evans George Bernard ShawFabian EssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 February, 1802: 'We did a little of Lessing. I attempted a fable, but my head ached ...'Dorothy Wordsworth Gotthold Ephraim LessingFablePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...'Thomas Green Bernard MandevilleFable of the BeesPrint: Book
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...Mary Shelley MandevilleFable of the BeesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'Mary Shelley Bernard MandevilleFable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benef...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'Mary Shelley Bernard MandevilleFable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benef...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy'Mary Shelley Bernard MandevilleFable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benef...Print: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "The fallacy of that book [Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees"] is, that Mandeville defines neither vices nor benefits. He reckons among vices everything that give...Samuel Johnson Bernard MandevilleFable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Bene...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 6 February, 1802: '... wrote ... after tea, and translated two or three of Lessing's Fables.'Dorothy Wordsworth Gotthold Ephraim LessingFablesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I completed the reading of Gay's "Fables", which I think contains a very good lesson of morality; and I think the language very healthy, being very natural.'Thomas Turner John GayFablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the empl...John Buckley Castieau AesopFablesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I faintly remember going through Aesop's Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second.'John Stuart Mill AesopFablesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper AesopFablesPrint: Book
1800-1849[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Empe...Percy Bysshe Shelley AesopFablesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday October 23rd. Do a fable and a half of Phaedrus. [...] '[Tuesday] October -- 24th. Do 5 and a half fables from Phaedrus.' [further readings in this auth...Claire Clairmont Phaedrus fablesPrint: Book
1800-1849‘... The ancient fables attributed to Aesop, Phaedrus, Pilpay, Avienus etc., are emblems or...allegories rather than Fables, most probably suggested by the Zoographic H...Hartley Coleridge AesopFablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .'Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Robert Bulwer-LyttonFables in SongUnknown
1850-1899'All right, I'll see what I can do. Before I could answer, I had to see the book; and my good father, after trying at all our libraries, bought it for me. I like the book...Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Robert Bulwer-LyttonFables in SongPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?Friday. I have got on rather better with the ?Fables?; perhaps it won?t be a failure, though I still fear...Saturday...I just finished some of the deedest rubbish about ...Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Robert Bulwer-LyttonFables in SongPrint: Book


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