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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
 
1850-1899'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.George Eliot Marco LastriL'Osservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it'George Eliot [pseud] Marco LastriL'Osservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Osservatore Fiorentino'Mary Shelley Marco LastriL'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua p...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Osservatore F.'Mary Shelley Marco LastriL'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua p...Print: Book
1900-1945Much marginalia in pencil, mainly in French but some in English, throughout the volume; summary notes on the rear end papers.Vernon Lee Jacques VontadeL??me des Anglais (Hypoth?ses Impertinentes)Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] T.A. TrollopeLa BeataPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro ChiariLa bella PellegrinaPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Adventures of Six Days'. Bed 1.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hilliers”, Northcourt Avenue. 18.XI.40
    Rosamund Wallis in the chair.

[...]

7. Isabel Talor rea...		Isabel Taylor John KeatsLa Belle Dame sans MerciUnknown
1800-1849'Wednesday May 2nd. [...] Read La Buona Moglie di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniLa Buona mogliePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'George Eliot [pseud] Bernardo Dovizi da BibbienaLa CalandraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 29th. [...] Read La [...] Cameriera Brillante by Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniLa Cameriera BrillantePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906: 'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicised me [...] In or outside Chartres you can find every...Edward Morgan Forster Joris-Karl HuysmansLa CathedralePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read till Dejeuner; sat opposite the Espieux. Afterwards finished the "Cathédral[e]" and talked to M. de Rival. Played chess with the bearded gentleman, finished "Paris"...Gertrude Bell Joris-Karl HuysmansLa Cathédrale Print: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Stendhal (pseud.)La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Chartreuse'.[La Chartreuse de Parme]Arnold Bennett Henri Beyle [Stendhal]La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is now about time that Tertia read "La Chartreuse de Parme". Maguerite has just read it.

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I have subscribed to the M[anchester] Guardia...		Arnold Bennett Stendhal (pseud.) La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book


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