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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Take a sonnet for the Ladies imitated from the Spanish of Bartolomè Leonardo, in which I have gi...Robert Southey Bartolomè Leonardo de ArgensolasonnetPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'Mary Shelley Bartolomeo de las CasasBrevissima relacion de la destruycion de las India...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. visits the galleries - writes - reads Spinosa - Clarendon aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Baruch Spinoza[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'Mary Shelley Baruch SpinozaTractatus Theologico-politicusPrint: 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...Mary and Percy ShelleyBaruch SpinozaTractatus Theologico-politicusPrint: Book
1800-1849'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Baruch de SpinozaTractatus Theologico-politicusPrint: Book
1850-1899'My day has been beguiled by a long Persian lesson this morning and a long [?conversation ?lesson with Mr] Frollock this afternoon! He has given me his Spinoza which is v...Gertrude Bell Baruch de SpinozaunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so much between the first and third volume of a book'.Sydney Smith Basil HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and unfair. It will make his fortune at the Admiralty. Th...Sydney Smith Basil HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: Book
1800-1849'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it ws too witty and brilliant. He then wrote it over aga...Sydney Smith Basil HallExtracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of C...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read voyage to Corea'Mary Shelley Basil HallAccount of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast...Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville Basil HallJournal in South AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville Basil HallJournal in South AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book you sent me was a great pleasure to me. Some of the ships I knew personally.'Joseph Conrad Basil LubbockThe Colonial ClippersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Found printed paper from Basil Montagu and sat up writing notes to detect its sophistry.'William Windham Basil Montagu['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and obser...Unknown
1800-1849'Went on with Basil Montagu, a most shallow reasoner'William Windham Basil Montagu['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and obser...Unknown
1800-1849'Assure Mr Montagu, that his Book was the most delightful I have read for many days. Your hand also was visible in it. Why does he not publish more such?' Thomas Carlyle Basil MontaguThoughts on Laughter By a Chancery BarristerUnknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Basil Montagu (ed.)The Opinions of different authors upon the punishm...Print: Book
1900-1945'Heaven knows there is enough infantile cruelty in his [Basil Nicholson's] book'.Antonia White Basil NicholsonBusiness is BusinessPrint: Book
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1600-1699		'In Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor Fido" (1591) [Gabriel] Harvey sometimes places a tiny letter symbol above a textual passage and an explanatory note or translation in th...Gabriel Harvey Battista GuariniIl Pastor FidoPrint: Book


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