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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
 
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...		Marguerite Bennett Stendhal (pseud.)La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1800-1849'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ...Caroline Clive Jules SandeauLa Chasse au RomanPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845: 'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how often does it happen that the immediate public, look...Mary Russell Mitford Alphonse de LamartineLa Chute d'un angePrint: 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'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to commen...Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Feb. 16th. [...] Read a little of La Cisma de Ingalaterra.' Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Cisma de IngalaterraPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa cisma de IngilterraPrint: Book
1900-1945'24th October 1928. Late to work. Hurried letter from mother asking me to obtain for her 10 copies of ?la Vie Litt?raire? (Cours Moyen). The publishers are Alcyde P...Gerald Moore H. BarbusseLa ClartPrint: Serial / periodical
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 MetastasioLa Clemenza di TitoPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I have spoken of his affection for Dickens. Trollope he liked. Thackeray I think not over much, though he had a due regard for such creations as Major Pendennis. Mer...Joseph Conrad Honoré de BalzacLa Comédie Humaine Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'Claire Clairmont MoliereLa Comtesse D'EscarbagnasPrint: Book
1850-1899'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by La Comtesse de Monrion.'Robert Louis Stevenson Frederic SoulieLa Comtesse de MonrionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's standpoint'.George Eliot [pseud] Alexander HerzenLa Condizione fisica della CoscienzaPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Left at 12.30 and reached Munich at 9, but the journey didn't seem at all long. Read Morelli and "La Cousine Bette". Stopped at the Hotel Belle Vue, supper and so to bed...Gertrude Bell Honoré de BalzacLa cousine BettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias"John Ruskin Alexandre ` DumasLa Dame aux CaméliasPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "La dame aux cheveux gris" all the evening to my mother.'John Ruskin Henriette CabrieresLa dame aux cheveux grisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]La danse des mortsPrint: Book


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