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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'S. reads the Hippolitus of Euripides'Percy Bysshe Shelley EuripidesHippolitusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus [sic] of Euripides'Percy Bysshe Shelley EuripidesHippolitusPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my partial habits of reading.Elizabeth Barrett HippolytusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, December 12, 1831: "Finished the Iphigenia in Tauris –not worth re-reading! –and began the Hippolytus"Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesHippolytusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, December 19, 1831: The waking was not agreeable. But I read myself into a good humour. Hippolytus is not one of Euripides’s best plays, tho’ it is very sup...Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesHippolytusPrint: Book
1850-1899Catherine Winkworth to Emma Shaen, 23 March 1853:

'I made up my mind not to write to you again till I had read "Villette" and now I have finished it [...] ...		Catherine Winkworth Christian Charles Josias BunsenHippolytus and His Age (vols 1-3)Print: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi...Sarah Scott Thomas Randolphhis answer to Christianity not founded on argumentPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on Monday the 15th began making a planetorium upon a st...John Marsh James FergusonHis Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Prin...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

The following essays wer...		Elizabeth T. Alexander Muriel StevensHis Good TurnManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frances Hodgson BurnettHis Grace of OsmondPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oliver CromwellHis Highnesse the Lord Protector's speeches to the...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Mrs Everard Cotes, 26 January 1900, on (published) novel she has written and sent to him: 'Your book is extraordinarily keen and delicate and able [...] On...Henry James Mrs Everard CotesHis Honour and a LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and the "Family Herald". Once when Laura, coming home from...Flora Thompson [unknown]His Ice QueenPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'Yesterday came out the King's Declaracion of war against the French; but with such mild invitations of both them and [the] Dutch to come over hither, with promise of the...Samuel Pepys King Charles IIHis Majesties declaration against the FrenchPrint: Broadsheet, Pamphlet
1600-1699'This day I read the King's speech to the parliament yesterday; which is very short and not very obliging, but only telling them his desire to have a power of indulging t...Samuel Pepys King Charles IIHis Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Pa...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'His Monkey Wife isn't a work of talent; it is a work of genius - or the word genius doesn't mean anything. Anyhow, it is what I know to be genius. And I feel badly that ...Edith Sitwell John CollierHis Monkey wife; or, Married to a ChimpPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've read your book ["His People"] with the usual delight and more than the usual admiration.[...] Three times I've gone through your pages so vigorous, so personal and ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamHis PeoplePrint: Book
1900-1945'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together...Joseph Conrad Robert Bontine Cunninghame GrahamHis People and Other Tales and SketchesPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton PurchasHis Pilgrimage or Relations of the World and the R...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, for the second time, and I feel impelled to tell you ...Edith Sitwell Walter GreenwoodHis Worship the MayorPrint: Book


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