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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
1850-1899		Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Rossetti has thoroughly understood the passage througho...John Ruskin Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 3rd Canto of l'Inferno'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Inferno for half an hour at the end of my own page [of cu...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred and Emily TennysonDante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I noticed in Dante today, the two lines, "quali dal vento &c." (Inferno, book 7th, 12) as curiously describing the moment chosen by Turner in the battle of Trafalgar.'John Ruskin Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Mebers of XII Book ClubDante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Miss Marriage Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its As...anon Thomas PearsonInfidelity; its Aspects, Causes and AgenciesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh I did see that (15). I read it - actually it makes you read it because you have to go through to the end to find out want it's all about. I did read it, but only beca... Information leafletPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Thus under one-third had, on their own showing, attempted to read all the nformation leaflets. But further questioning indicated that many who said they had read all, di... information leafletsPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'When I first read about it I thought to myself; "I don't think that's going to affect me at all; 66 coupons! Why, I shall need half of it!" But then I began to buy thing... information on clothes rationingPrint: Unknown, could be news or pamphlets
1850-1899'While Polly was away I read to Harry & Dotty one of the Ingoldsby's Legends'John Buckley Castieau Richard Harris BarhamIngoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the narrative & after I had finished it Flory went [smiling...John Buckley Castieau Richard Harris BarhamIngoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1900-1945'To-day I ... prepare myself for leaving England. I read, whilst [here] the "Ingoldsby Legends" entire, Second Part "King Henry IV," and more cursorily "Midsummer ...Wainwight Merrill Richard Harris BarhamIngoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'Arthur Hallam Susan FerrierInheritancePrint: Book


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