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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'death scene in gertrude of wyoming/ campbell'; there is also a footnote that gives the context of the scene in the tale.Mary Groom Thomas CampbellGertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian TaleUnknown
1800-1849So we read together ... a part of the beautiful "Gerusalemme Liberata", of Tasso, in that most beautiful tongue.Thomas Cooper TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'[Mr] Gisborne Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'Mary Shelley Christoph Martin WielandGeschichte der AbderitenPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Carl Friedrich FlogelGeschichte der Komischen LitteraturPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Johann Joachim WinckelmannGeschichte der Kunst des AlterhumsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Johann Joachim WinckelmannGeschichte der Kunst des AlterthumsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'Percy Bysshe Shelley Johann Joachim WinckelmannGeschichte der Kunst des AlterthumsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Johann Gottlieb BuhleGeschichte der neuern PhilosophiePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Friedrich BouterwekGeschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wilhelm Gottlieb TennemannGeschichte der PhilosophiePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Agathon part of which I like but it [is] not so good as Peregrine'.Mary Godwin Christopher Martin WirlandGeschichte des AgathonPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Agathon - I do not like it. Wieland displays some most detestable opinions - he is one of those men who alter all their opinions when they are about 40 and then t...Mary Godwin Christopher Martin WirlandGeschichte des AgathonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Julius Leopold KleinGeschichte des DramasPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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