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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'Mary Martin came to live with me at 30s per year. Read "The Conscious Lovers" in the even.'Thomas Turner Richard SteeleThe Conscious LoversPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book used by Wordsworth after 1800 contains "four verses f...William Wordsworth David HerdAncient and Modern Scottish PoemsPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Mary O'Connor, the woman first appointed to be school-mistress to her fellow-prisoners, conducted herself with much propriety in that office and in every other respect w...Mary O'Connor [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley The Arabian NightsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley HomerThe IliadPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley Walter ScottnovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary read to me some passages from Ld Byron's poems. I was not before so clearly aware [of] how much of the colouring our own feelings throw upon the liveliest delineati...Mary Godwin George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mary reads greek & Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls.'Mary Godwin Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknown[Greek]Unknown
1800-1849'Mary reads greek and Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls - M. reads the Sorcerer'.Mary Godwin Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary reads Political Justice all the morning'.Mary Godwin William GodwinAn enquiry concerning political justice and its in...Print: Book
1800-1849'Mary reads the "Excursion" all day & reads the "History of Margeret" to PBS'.Mary Godwin William WordsworthThe excursion, being a portion of the recluse, a p...Print: Book
1800-1849'Mary receives her first lesson in greek - She reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock'.Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyCurse of Kehama, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary, William and Emma commenced their readings of Thomson.'Mary, William and Emma Cole ThomsonThe Seasons [probably]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield Geoffrey ChaucerThe Parliament of FowlsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield John Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown]Print: Book


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