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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'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonAlchymist, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the fall of Sejanus'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonSejanus his FallPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonCatiline his ConspiracyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 31 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & Epicoene or the silent woman'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonVolponePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's England aloud in the evening after our walk.'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonThe Magnetick Lady, or Humours reconciledPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Bartholomew Fair of Ben Johnson [sic]'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonBartholomew FayrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 16th. [...] Read the fall of Sejanus -- [...] 'Tuesday April 18th. [...] Read Locke & fall of Sejanus. [...] 'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Fin...Claire Clairmont Ben JonsonSejanus His FallPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonTale of a TubPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The case is altered of B. Jonson'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonCase is Altered, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonAlchemist, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Read the New Inn of Ben Jonson & 2 canto's of Dante with S. - he reads the Alchemist aloud in the evening'.Mary Shelley Ben JonsonNew Inn, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Read the Poetaster'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonPoetaster, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - & Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening - read 24th Canto of Dante with him'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonSad Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - Dante with me - & finishes the Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonSad Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonCatiline his ConspiracyPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Fall of Sejanus aloud. reads Hobbes. On Man.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonSejanus, his FallPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Hobbes - Catalines plot aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonCataline, his ConspiracyPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Case is Altered of B.[en] Jonson aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonCase is Altered, ThePrint: Book



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