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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'Some "Vie Parisiennes" heartened me, and I needed it, for not one line yet to hand from Europe or Cairo — a cruel and needless privation.'Ronald Storrs La Vie ParisiennePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English. To get over this handicap, I tried to recollect some French, that admirable language...William Collis Spackman La Vie ParisiennePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 September 1844: 'The first book of Balzac's I ever read, disgusted me so, that I vowed to read no more of him, -- & it ...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLa Vieille FillePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845: 'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] at last -- & the "Physiologie" besides [...] remembe...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLa vieille fillePrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca [quotes three lines from Act I]' [readings from this text also ...Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Virgen del SagrarioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. re...Mary Shelley Niccolo MachiavelliLa vita di Castruccio Castracani da LuccaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - ...Mary Shelley Niccolo MacchiavelliLa vita di Castruccio Castracani da LuccaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pietro Antonio SerassiLa vita di Torquato TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pietro Antonio SerassiLa vita di Torquato TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Manso's life of Tasso'Percy Bysshe Shelley Giovanni Battista MansoLa vita di Torquato TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'Mary Shelley Giovanni Battista MansoLa vita di Torquato TassoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dante's Vita Nuova'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the vita nuova aloud to me in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Vita Nuova.'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.Elizabeth Smith Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.Elizabeth Edminson Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.Howard R. Smith Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: 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 Rinaldo di CapuaLa zingaraPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read and finish Gozzi's play of Zobeide'Mary Shelley Carlo GozziLa ZobeidePrint: Book


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