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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner Wm. also read.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'I read German after my return [from walk] till tea time.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrica...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 March 1802: 'Read a little German, got my dinner.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a little German ...'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.'Dorothy Wordsworth German text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'After dinner ... I read German ...'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, 14 July 1844: 'I read but very little. My leisure is principally given to my German, in which I am making some progress.'Fanny Kemble unknownGerman text/sPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'Mary Shelley Benjamin Thompson [trans.]German TheatrePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre'Mary Shelley Benjamin Thompson (trans.)German TheatrePrint: Book
1800-1849'De Quincey recalled the time ... when he persuaded W[ordsworth] to read [Harriet] Lee's The German's Tale: 'This most splendid tale I put into the hands of Wordsworth;...William Wordsworth Harriet LeeGerman's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'.Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusGermaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Germania and "memoire d'un Detenu".'Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusGermaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there & reads Germania - Several books arrive among others ...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusGermaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] -- [...] 'Monday April 10th....Claire Clairmont Tacitus GermaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849Read with much delight and instruction the Baroness De Stael's Germany I.G. Baroness Anne Loiuse Germaine De Stael-HolsteinGermanyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cramb, and some Bernhardi, and I am sure we could not ...Edward Morgan Forster John Adam CrambGermany and England
1850-1899Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 13 May 1885: " ... the only thing I have read from la-bas [ie France] is the wondrous, and I must say in some ways admirable, Germinal."Henry James Emile ZolaGerminalPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am just reading 'Germinie Lacerteux,' the masterpiece (I fancy) of the de Goncourts.' Arnold Bennett Edmond and Jules de GoncourtGerminie LacerteuxPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Book Club to look at the Reviews ... have you seen the ...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas CampbellGertrude of Wyoming (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical


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