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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
 
1900-1945'Saturday 10th July ?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'. Gerald Moore William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 20th. [...] Work all day. S. reads Henry 4th to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Henry IV aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1700-1799'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe, who with less ceremony than might have been expecte...Janet Schaw William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1700-1799'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe, who with less ceremony than might have been expecte...Robert Howe William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1800-1849'An excellent plot, excellent friends, and full of preparations'. Footnote: An allusion to Hotspur's plot in I Henry IV, ii. 3. Walter Scott William ShakespeareHenry IVUnknown
1900-1945Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats the use of writing; reading, imperfectly, a poem by Le...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

Reginald H. Robson William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckra...Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

Sylvanus A. Reynolds William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckra...Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

Charles E. Stansfield William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckra...Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

George Burrow William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckra...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareHenry IV part IPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry IV Part IPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.'John Ruskin William ShakespeareHenry IV Part IPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareHenry IV part IIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'If we had telephonic communication I would call you up and hear me thump my chest and cry mea culpa for not having written to him [Ford Madox Ford] about the [Henry] Jam...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)Henry James:A Critical StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The...members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Henry LawrenceManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but his school-fellows did, and all their gay activitie...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Henry MilnerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...
Edward Henry Jones William ShakespeareHenry the EighthPrint: Book



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