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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
 
1700-1799'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolled by mere chance into a Bookseller's Shop, where how...Hester Lynch Thrale Laurence Sterneife and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Il balliano; ovvero Il vero amore ne'cimenti e piu...Print: Unknown
1800-1849''Monday June 18th. Pack up [for departure to Pisa next day] [...] Read the Cavaliere del buon Gusto da Goldoni [sic].'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniIl Cavaliere di buon gustoPrint: Book
1700-1799"[William and Dorothy Wordsworth] probably read [the Decameron] together as he tutored her in Italian [1796] ... " This "consistent" with W[ordsworth]'s remark in Nov. 18...William and Dorothy WordsworthGiovanni BoccaccioIl DecameronePrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria [sic] da Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniIl FeudatarioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday March 31st. Read Il Matrimonio per Concorso di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniIl Matrimonio per concorsoPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home and got my wife to read to me again in "The Nepotisme", which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys Gregorio LetiIl nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes ...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys Gregorio LetiIl nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes ...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.'Tom Edwards Gregorio LetiIl nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Johnson had with him upon this jaunt, "Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra", a romance praised by Cervantes; but did not like it much. He said, he read it for the language, by wa...Samuel Johnson Francisco de MoraisIl Palmerino d'InghilterraPrint: Book
1500-1599
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
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith Giovanni Battista GuariniIl Pastor FidoPrint: Book
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] Giovanni Battista GuariniIl Pastor FidoPrint: Book
1800-1849'to return to "Pastor Fido", with whom I have not yet finished, - I must tell you, that though I (what a great authority!) do not take pleasure in this said translation o...Miss V[-] Giovanni Battista GuarinoIl Pastor FidoPrint: 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 ClairmontGiovanni Battista GuariniIl Pastor Fido; tragicomedio pastoralePrint: 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 Shelley and Claire ClairmontGiovanni Battista GuiariniIl pastor fido; tragicomedio pastoralePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings whi...Samuel Bamford John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, in entry for Thursday 3 June 1802, 'A very affecting letter came from M[ary]. H[utchinson]., while I was sitting in the window read...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea running the heel of...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...] Not long after he was gone, I read both pieces in ...Mr Perry John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book


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