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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
 
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers' Vows;" it is the entire and literal translation of ...Mary Berry August von KotzebueLovers' VowsPrint: Book
1800-1849from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read it with a sort of melancholy feeling, the very germ ...Anne Lister August Fredrich Ferdinand von KotzebueLeontine de BlondheimPrint: Book
1800-1849'At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's - but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great from Irving. I will make an affu' struggle to read a...Thomas Carlyle August Friedrich Ferdinand von KotzebueUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 16th. [...] Begin Seitenstuck zum Flussgitt Niemen von Kotzebue. [...] 'Sunday May 20th. [...] Finish Possen von [...] Kotzebue.'Claire Clairmont August Friedrich Ferdinand von KotzebuePossen, die Zeit beachtend, bey Gelegenheit des Ru...Print: Book
1800-1849read Tacitus and le Testament'Mary Shelley August H. J. LafontaineDas TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Mary Godwin August H.J. LafontaineCarl Engelmann's TagebuchPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Walther and some of Rienzi'Mary Godwin August H.J. LafontaineWalther oder das Kind vom SchlachtfeldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finis...Mary Godwin August H.J. LafontaineWalther oder das Kind vom SchlachtfeldPrint: Book
1850-1899'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with great spirit... little rain sent us into the house, and ...George Eliot (pseud) August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben[a bacchanalian poem]Manuscript: Unknown, own poem
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge August Heinrich MatthiaeA Copious Greek GrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley August von KotzebueDas merkw?rdigste Jahr meines LebensPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetching up my arrears in books, which everybody (who reads...Sydney Smith August von KotzebueDas merkw?rdigste Jahr meines LebensPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin August von KotzebueDas merkwurdigste Jahr meines Lebens
1800-1849'Shelley reads Schlegel aloud [to] us - We sleep at Rheims.'Percy Bysshe Shelley August W. von SchlegelUber dramatische Kunst und LiteraturPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Schlegel aloud and we travel on in a pleasant country among nice people - We sleep at Dijon'Percy Bysshe Shelley August W. von SchlegelUber dramatische Kunst und LiteraturPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge August Wilhelm RehbergUeber das Verhaltniss der Metaphysik zu der Religi...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge August Wilhelm SchlegelGedichtePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge August Wilhelm SchlegelUeber dramatische Kunst und LitteraturPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832: 'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the Greek Theatre, composed in part of extracts, & edit...Elizabeth Barrett August Wilhelm von SchlegelUber dramatische Kunst und Literatur (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Schlegel's Essays are most certainly worth reading, altho' you will not entirely agree with him in many of his opinions'.Anne Romilly August Wilhelm von Schlegel[Essays]Print: Book


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