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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'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Christoph Martin WielandGeheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Prot...Print: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Wilhelmina von HillernGeier-WallyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the staircase on which he was beheaded at the Doge's Palac...George Gordon Lord Byron Johan Christoph von SchillerGeisterseherPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... 'Dorothea Beale and mother general literaturePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Helen Rawlings Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Alfred Rawlings Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Ernest E. Unwin Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Mary Robson Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Rosamund Wallis Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Arthur Donald InnesGeneral Sketch of Political History From the Earli...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: a page of ms notes on the first binding page gives nautical instructions 'The course by the Compass From Buchaness to Fair Isle is NNE or .... Dist. 32 leag...William Ferguson AnonGeneral treatise of naval trade and commerce, as f...Print: Book
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] P. von BohlenGenesisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832: 'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis in Hebrew [...] As I knew the character[s] or some...Elizabeth Barrett GenesisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half wa...Elizabeth Barrett GenesisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have begun reading Genesis in Hebrew with Dr R[osen, the German Consul]! It's frightfully thrilling — but as yet I have only read one verse so I don't feel to ha...Gertrude Bell Genesis Print: Book
1900-1945'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p...Ethel Mannin n/aGenesis (story of Jacob and Esau)Print: Book
1900-1945'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tc...Katherine Mansfield Anton ChekhovGenevaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd, ThePrint: Book


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