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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[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Charles James, Lord Holland FoxA history of the early part of the reign of James ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after...Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Jean Dominque de LacretellePrecis historique de la Revolution FrancaisePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into Henault; but Lord Hailes, in my opinion, leaves him...Samuel Johnson Charles Jean François HenaultAbrege chronologique de l'histoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 18th December. ?Rev. Captain Kettle? ? (Hyne)'.Gerald Moore Charles John Cutcliffe Wright HyneThe Rev. Captain KettlePrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Charles Louis PhilippeBubu de MontparnassePrint: Book
1900-1945Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s...Arnold Bennett Charles Louis PhilippeBubu de MontparnassePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park, 16.I.34.
    Francis E. Pollard in the chair

1. The Chairman offered the Club’s greet...		Dorothy Brain Charles Lutwidge Dodgson[letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'On the whole my experience of being read to by my parents was not a success. Alice in Wonderland was spoiled by my constant habit of asking questions and my intol...Wilfred Ruprecht Bion Charles Lutwidge DodsonAlice Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Up at 7. Most of the day reading Doughty and trying with Gertrude Bell to settle route after Buraida.[...] Continued to glean for a Najd glossary from Doughty's Index ti...Ronald Storrs Charles M. DoughtyTravels in Arabia DesertaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Came to Damascus and read "Arabia Deserta" all the way. Still autumn in the Beqa', leaves brown and gold, gold and green on the poplars.' Gertrude Bell Charles M. DoughtyTravels in Arabia DesertaPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gr...George Gregory Charles Monroe SheldonThe Crucifixion of Philip StrongPrint: Book
1900-1945'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'Cecil King Charles Montagu DoughtyTravels in Arabia DesertaPrint: Book
1900-1945After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I...Ford Madox Ford Charles Montagu DoughtyThe Dawn in BritainPrint: Book
1900-1945'Anecdotish dinner; bed about 10, where read Milton's "P[aradise] L[ost] and Watson's "Jerusalem".'Ronald Storrs Charles Moore WatsonThe Story of JerusalemPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] May [1914]. Alice Ottley Memoir.
Pennell 10/6 Memoirs. at last!
Neve Kashmir
A woman in the antipodes & far east
    by Mary ...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Charles Norris WilliamsonCar of Destiny and Its Errand in SpainPrint: Book
1900-1945'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'Lawrence Durrell Charles Pierre Baudelaire[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin Charles R. MaturinBertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand, a traged...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'Mary Godwin Charles R. MaturinThe Milesian ChiefPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Family of Montorio'Mary Shelley Charles R. MaturinFatal Revenge; or the Family of MontorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Family of Montorio'Mary Shelley Charles R. MaturinFatal Revenge; or the Family of MontorioPrint: Book


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