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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'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 ...Harriet Martineau John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge PetrarchIl Petrarca di nuova ristampato, & c diligentementPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday March 28th. [...] Read Il Poeta Fanatico di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniIl Poeta FanaticoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began "Il Principe".'George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo MachiavelliIl PrincipePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Wednesday April 21st. Read 1 Canto of Ricciardetto'.Claire Clairmont Niccolo ForteguerriIl Ricciardetto di Niccolo CarteromacoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday April 28th. [...] Read the tenth Canto of Ricciardetto'. Claire Clairmont Niccolo ForteguerriIl Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 10)Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 29th. Read 11th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. Claire Clairmont Niccolo ForteguerriIl Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 11)Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 30th. Read the 12th. Canto of Ricciardetto and read no further. I find it so stupid'. Claire Clairmont Niccolo ForteguerriIl Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 12)Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'.Claire Clairmont Niccolo ForteguerriIl Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 2)Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday April 26th. Read 7th Canto of Ricciardetto'. Claire Clairmont Niccolo ForteguerriIl Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 7)Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 24th. [...] Read 3rd. & 4th. Canto of Ricciardetto.'Claire Clairmont Niccolo ForteguerriIl Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 3 a...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 25th. Read 5th. & 6th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. Claire Clairmont Niccolo ForteguerriIl Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 5 a...Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday April 27th. Read 8th. & 9th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. Claire Clairmont Niccolo ForteguerriIl Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 8 a...Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Les Cosaques" and began "Il Santo" which is rather dull reading. Saw a good many swallows some of which rested on the ship.'Gertrude Bell Antonio FogazzaroIl SantoPrint: Book
1900-1945'That night three calls from newspaper offices were put through to my bedroom; next morning the front page of "Il Secolo" carried an account of my arrival. I also read a...Vera Brittain Il SecoloPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge St Francis of Sales Il Teotima osia il trattato dell'amor di DioPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [Francesco] Petrarch [Petrarco]Il trionfo della MortePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu...George Gordon Lord Byron H. Gally KnightIlderim: A Syrian TaleUnknown
1700-1799"[in Aug. 1787 Dorothy Wordsworth] reported that 'I am at present [reading] the Iliad' ... "Dorothy Wordsworth HomerIliadPrint: Book



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