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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'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonTale of a TubPrint: Book
1800-1849'walk with S. - he reads Every Man in his humour aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end ita...Elizabeth Barrett Ben JonsonplaysPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She...Jane Maria, Lady Strachey Ben JonsonmasquesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman. I am reading her because we now read plays at 46 [G...Virginia Woolf Ben JonsonEpicoene, or The Silent WomanPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart Ben Jonson[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Cob was once the general name the general English Word I mean for a Spider, Cobweb is still left from this Root, & I believe when Ben Jonson wrote Every Man in his Humou...Hester Lynch Thrale Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mrs Thrale gives some verses of hers about bathing] these Lines are imitated from some Verses in Ben Jonson's Volpone, which are too obscene to be borne, otherwise very...Hester Lynch Thrale Ben JonsonVolponePrint: Book
1900-1945"Which reminds me I noticed an extract from Ben Jonson the other day which said 'the third requisite in our poet, or maker, is imitation... to follow him (Auden, in my ca...Philip Larkin Ben JonsonextractUnknown
1900-1945'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & sugg...Henry Marriage Wallis Ben Jonson[short poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & sugg...R.B. Graham Ben Jonson[short poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & sugg...Charles Evans Ben Jonson Print: Book
1900-1945'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & sugg...Rosamund Wallis Ben JonsonTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1800-1849'His last works were Spiritual hymns and which he wrote very well. In his own line of Society he was said to exhibit infinite humour but all his works are grave and pens...Walter Scott Ben JonsonEveryman in his HumourUnknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, and his household's change of residence:] ...Catherine Talbot Ben Jonson Print: Book
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.Charles I. Evans Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.George Burrow Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.Reginald H. Robson Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Benedetto MenziniPoesie di Benedetto Menzini Fiorentino divise in d...Print: Book


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