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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'Read a part of St Leon'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin William GodwinSt. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Work and read in the evening'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin PetroniusSatyriconPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read Louvet's memoirs'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayNarrative of the dangers to which I have been expo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Louvet's memoirs all day'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayNarrative of the dangers to which I have been expo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Louvet's memoirs'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayNarrative of the dangers to which I have been expo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Write and read'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's "Lives"'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John AdolphusBiographical Memoirs of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Edgar Huntley to us'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Brockden BrownEdgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walkerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary read to me some passages from Ld Byron's poems. I was not before so clearly aware [of] how much of the colouring our own feelings throw upon the liveliest delineati...Mary Godwin George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction'.Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftMary, A FictionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley... brings home Wordsworth's Excursion of which we read a part - much disapointed - He is a slave'.Mary Godwin and Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary receives her first lesson in greek - She reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock'.Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyCurse of Kehama, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary reads greek and Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls - M. reads the Sorcerer'.Mary Godwin Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Political Justice & the empire of the Nairs'.Mary Godwin James Henry LawrenceEmpire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Alexy Haimatoff - study a little greek - read Political Justice'.Mary Godwin Thomas Jefferson HoggMemoirs of Prince Alexy HaimatoffPrint: Book
1800-1849'We walk out - when we return Shelley talks with Jane and I read Wrongs of woman'.Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftWrongs of Woman; or, MariaPrint: Book
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813: 'Upon reading a few days ago in the papers an account of the Queen of Naples' magnificent reception at the Ottoman court, it...Uvedale Price newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1814: 'I dined with Madame de Stael; nobody but Campbell the poet, Rocca, and her own daughter [...] After dinner, Campbell read to us a disc...Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbelldiscourse on English poetry and poetsUnknown
1800-1849'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. listen for two hours - at length bring her to Mary. Begi...Percy Bysshe Shelley CiceroCato Maior de SenectutePrint: Book



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