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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
 
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareHamletPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening Dessoir came and read Hamlet'.[M.] Dessoir William ShakespeareHamletPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Bertie Greathead, 2 August 1798, on having got to know Mrs Siddons the previous winter: 'She read "Hamlet" to us one evening, in N. Audley-street, which was...Sarah Siddons William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Robert Owen] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he knew the Bible so well as to have been heartily sick of it in his early youth. He owned that he had never read it sinc...Harriet Martineau William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature Forward not permanent ? sweet not lasting The per...Lady Caroline Lamb William ShakespeareHamletUnknown
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: T...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 14th March, Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half our members. Reading ?Hamlet" ? the first time I h...Gerald Moore William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Hamlet'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hamlet'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday March 3rd. [...] Read Hamlet.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-diggers. Harry read the Gravediggers very well. Afterwar...Castieau familyWilliam ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was just nine Years old when having got the play of Hamlet to read in his Father's Kitchen, he read on very qu[i]etly till he came to the Ghost scene, when ...Samuel Johnson William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the progr...Pattie Stansfield William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1900-1945'We pitched the men's tent and lighted a great fire at which we dried ourselves — I was wet too. In a moment's sunshine we pitched the other tents, and then came th...Gertrude Bell William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admi...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareHamlet, translated into German by SchlegelPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Lord Buckingham was once at a dinner where a Mr Grub was requested to sing. He begged to be excused, urging that he ...Catherine Austen Hampshire AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To a Flirt" [unattributed, but the poem is "To his Forsaken Mistress" by Sir Robert Ayton, and begi...Catherine Austen Hampshire AdvertiserUnknown


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