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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[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Empe...Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis Bacon[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Empe...Mary Godwin Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849[italics]'S. finishes the 2d vol of Livy 1657 page... S. unwell and exhausted' [end italics]Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Corinne (42)'.Mary Godwin Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelCorinne, ou d'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849'Rise - talk and read Corinne' / 'nurse the baby and read Corinne'Mary Godwin Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelCorinne, ou d'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849'read talk and nurse - S reads the life of Chauser'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinLife of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet, i...Print: Book
1800-1849'S finishes the life of Chauser'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinLife of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet, i...Print: Book
1800-1849'find my baby dead- Send for Hogg - talk - a miserable day - in the evening read fall of the Jesuits'.Mary Godwin Isaac D' IsraeliDespotism; or the fall of the JesuitsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra -- in which the Queen Catterine tells Henry that [...] Jane Seymour can sing, Ana Bolena dance and the Infanta ...Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Louis MaimbourgHistoire de l'arianisme depuis sa naissance, jusqu...Print: Book
1800-1849The Earl of Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, in response to a query regarding quotation from Homer by Thucydides, 1 September 1846: 'I should have answered your letter ...Earl of Aberdeen James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Charles Arbuthnot to John Wilson Croker, 7 December 1848: 'That I had the greatest regard and affection for my departed friend Lord Castlereagh is most true. But I hav...Charles Arbuthnot C. W. Vane, Marquess of Londonderry, editorCorrespondence, Dispatches, and other papers of Vi...Print: Book
1800-1849The Bishop of Exeter to John Wilson Croker, 13 April 1849: 'I was not satisfied with one reading of your article. 'The repetition has more than doubled my gratifica...Bishop of Exeter John Wilson Crokerarticle on Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of ...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 28 December 1847: I have only got Hansard to-day; I have marked the particular passages in the Coercion Bill debate, and se...Lord George Bentinck Hansard (parliamentary reports)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Sir James Graham to John Wilson Croker, 18 September 1847: 'I have read in the newspapers with great regret, but without surprise, the report of the death of Lady Foll...Sir James Graham report of death of Lady FollettPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'I have got the Quarterly and am highly delighted with your contribution to it, which I esteem most admirab...Lord George Bentinck John Wilson Croker'Peel Policy'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'The cotton market will ocupy a good deal of attention [...] Ferguson and Taylor's "Manchester Monthly Trad...Lord George Bentinck Manchester Monthly Trade CircularPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The German book is getting praise rather than censure: I was about sending Alick a copy of the last Examiner Newspaper, where it was rather sensibly criticised. The man...Thomas Carlyle Signed as 'Q' Review of 'German Romance' by Thomas CarlylePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 30 June 1847: 'I have read your article in the Quarterly and think it quite admirable -- a complete stunner for the Peel pa...Lord George Bentinck John Wilson Crokerarticle on Parliament and Irish CatholicsPrint: Serial / periodical
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 [the works listed above]Print: Book


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