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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'I have procured an old translation of De Serres. but I am told the best account of the Maid [of Orleans...Robert Southey Gregory Lewis WayFabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscript...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Pierre Jean Baptiste Legrand d' AussyFabliaux ou contes du XII et du XIII si?clePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with facility, & am now abridging the Angelica of Lope de V...Robert Southey Tomás de IriarteFábulas Literarias Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		‘... [William] Roscoe’s “Butterfly's Ball” and Mrs. [Sarah] Trimmer’s “Flapsy and Pecksey” (which I am glad to see so kindly mentioned in the Doctor [by Robert Southey]...Hartley Coleridge Sarah TrimmerFabulous Histories, Designed for the Instruction o...Print: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'Lodovico Domenichi's "Facetie, motti, et burle" (1571) [an Italian collection of short miscellaneous observations and anecdotes] [...] stimulated Harvey to jot down [in ...Gabriel Harvey Lodovico DomenichiFacetie, motti, et burlePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Charles Stansfield Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Florence Reynolds Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Elizabeth Edminson Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Henry Marriage Wallis Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'I was a good time in the army before I knew what a whore was. We never asked the English master when we were doing the Faerie Queene, because of his cloth, and he...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Edmond SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Pliny and walk. S. reads a canto of Spencer'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Spencer aloud & finishes the first & begins the second book.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working on the "Faerie Queene", at least ten Shakespeare pla...Wilfred Owen Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'[James Mathias was on summer vacation and] when he came back my Father asked him what Books he had read - I read says he a strange Account of a Beast which however is de...James Mathias Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.'John Ruskin Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'This preoccupation with the sensuous form I experienced most obviously and acutely when I read with mounting excitement Spenser's "Faery Queen".'Thomas A. Jackson Edmund SpenserFaery QueenePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tor...Hester Lynch Thrale Nicholas RoweFair Penitent, ThePrint: Book


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