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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 the Georgics'Mary Shelley VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening'Mary Shelley VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'Mary Shelley VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary's reading list for 1819, an x denoting Percy having read a text too. All texts are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on these references] ...Mary Shelley VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin the Georgics with S.'Mary and Percy Shelley VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'Mary and Percy Shelley VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1700-1799'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...Samuel Johnson VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil thro...Samuel Johnson VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1900-1945From Mukalla I made my way with a small caravan of donkeys, inland to the wadi Du'an [...] But in Du'an I sickened, and in the great wadi Hadhramaut I very nearly d...Freya Stark VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson Virgil Georgics (II)Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of...Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel)Virgil Georgics IPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Daphne Du MaurierGeraldPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore [family's country residence] 'Rose at 7. Read some ...George Grote and sister German BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since the first two I spent on board; translated a German ...Fanny Kemble unknownGerman fablePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a little in Lessing and the grammar.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: '... after dinner read German Grammar.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman GrammarPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'My mornings are devoted to Law; I allow the evening for pleasanter employments & divide it between the German Gramma...Robert Southey anonGerman GrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsche Gazettes of all which I understand neither word no...George Gordon Lord Byron German periodicalsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'After tea he reads to us aloud some German stories translated by Gillies...'Elizabeth Wedgwood R. P. GilliesGerman Stories, selected from the works of Hoffman...Print: Book
1800-1849'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial t...James Hogg R.P. GilliesGerman Stories, selected from the works of Hoffman...Print: Book


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