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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
 
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847: 'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, which is in the press, and about to be published in defe...John Wilson Croker anon 'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel'Unknown
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 16 December 1846: 'H[enry]. B[rougham]. spoke with bitterness [...] of Lord John [?Bedford] -- he said he had read his pref...Henry Brougham Bedford Letters vol 3Print: Book
1800-1849'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.Mary Godwin Isaac D'IsraeliDespotism; or, the Fall of the JesuitsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Renaldini - talk with Shelley- in very bad spirits but get better'.Mary Godwin Christian August VulpiusRinaldo Rinaldini, der RauberhauptmannPrint: Book
1800-1849'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.Mary Godwin Christian August VulpiusRinaldo Rinaldini, der RauberhauptmannPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read and talk - still think about my little baby - 'tis hard indeed for a mother to loose a child - Hogg and C.[harles] C.[lairmont] come in the evening - CC goes at 11....Mary Godwin Bernard le Bouyer de FontinelleEntretiens sur la pluralite des mondesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud'Thomas Jefferson Hogg John Black (trans.)Memoirs of Goldoni (the celebrated Italian Dramati...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol....Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinLife of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poetPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening Hogg reads Gibbon to me (393)'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol....Percy Bysshe Shelley Simon OckleyThe Conquest of Syria, Persia and Aegypt, by the S...Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol....Percy Bysshe Shelley Anne Louise Germaine de (Madame de) StaelDe la Litterature consideree dans ses rapports ave...Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol....Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe Condita [probably]Print: Book
1800-1849'Hogg reads Gibbon to me - go to Bullocks Museum - see the birds - return at 4 - work and H reads Gibbon aloud (finish 4 volume)'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Livy - he has arrived at vol 3 - Page 307'.Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.Mary Godwin and Percy ShelleyEdward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Talk and read the papers'Mary Godwin [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'After dinner read Hermsprong'Mary Godwin Robert BageHermsprong: Or Man as he is not. A novel. By the A...Print: Book
1800-1849'read le diable boiteux [...] in the evening read le diable boiteux and play at chess'.Mary Godwin Alain Rene LesageLe Diable boiteuxPrint: Book


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