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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1900-1945	[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...	Hilary Spalding	William Shakespeare	Henry the Fifth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an odd vol which I got for 6d [...] I can never lay it d...	John Clare	William Shakespeare	Henry The Fifth	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, who remarks that to call a circle an O was a very me...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the evenings".'	Grace Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'We sowed the Scarlet Beans in the orchard, and read Henry V. there.'	William and Dorothy Wordsworth	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.	George Eliot [pseud.]	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'S. reads Henry V'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Signature] R.L.H. Stevenson 'You don’t know what H. means, ha? I have been reading Nym; and that’s the humour of it.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's Nym in Henry V: and the Expressions are in no few Pas...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: 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...	Frederick Edminson	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works,...	Elizabeth Edminson	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Le Havre, though undamaged by war, was stark and gloomy to march through ... "We are quite near Agincourt", I wrote dutifully to my old history master at school, feeling...	Wilfred Ruprecht Bion	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just finished the Lady of the Lake. – I read all the notes. I have also read these plays of Shakespeare. John. Richard 2d. Henry 4th & I am now reading Henr...	William Henry Fox Talbot	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'	Thomas Fremantle	William Shakespeare	Henry VI	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry VI	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Henry VI aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry VI	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.	George Eliot [pseud.]	William Shakespeare	Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	"If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy to read some of the old dramatists, being prompted by...	Leslie Stephen	William Shakespeare	Henry VIII	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.	George Eliot [pseud.]	William Shakespeare	Henry VIII	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry VIII	Print: Book

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