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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'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are...George Crabbe Joseph MilnerHistory of the Church of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tell Eras: that Buckle has been an immense treat...Of course I agree about the grave inconsistencies, serious disproportions &c; and I doubt whether he understands Condi...Harriet Martineau Henry BuckleHistory of the Civilisation in EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, "but I asked him on the wro...Michael Stapleton William PrescottHIstory of the Conquest of PeruPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was pleased with it.'Joseph Hunter Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline & Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1700-1799'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was pleased with it.'Joseph Evans Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline & Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening Hogg reads Gibbon to me (393)'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Hogg reads Gibbon to me - go to Bullocks Museum - see the birds - return at 4 - work and H reads Gibbon aloud (finish 4 volume)'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.Mary Godwin and Percy ShelleyEdward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - S finishes Livy (p920 vol 3.) & 1/2 past 12 at night...Mary Godwin Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassin...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbo...Percy Shelley and Claire ClairmontEdward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi - Fortifiocca)[end i...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.Claire Clairmont Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and Hume. S reads Gibbon - read G[e]orgics - 194'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book


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