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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'Begin Julius Florus and finish the little vol of Cicero.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Marcus Tullius Cicero Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish St Leon.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Wiiliam GodwinSt. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Caleb Williams.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Wiiliam GodwinThings as they are; or the Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads a part of Comus aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonComus (A mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634)Print: 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
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill anonThe Annual RegisterPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'He ['my father'] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcom...John Stuart Mill Philip BeaverAfrican memoranda relative to an attempt to establ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Gilbert BurnetHistory of my Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849'He [?my father?] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcom...John Stuart Mill Collins[account of the first settlement of New South Wale...Unknown
1800-1849'At that time [?my eighth year?] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s C...John Stuart Mill Diogenes LaertiusLives of the PhilosophersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Robert WatsonHistory of the Reign of Philip IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Robert WatsonHistory of Philip IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill William RobertsonHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill David HumeThe History of England (presumably)Print: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Nathaniel HookeRoman History from the Building of Rome to the Rui...Print: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill IsocratesAd NicoclemPrint: Book


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