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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'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyRosalind and Helen: a Modern EclogueManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'Mary Shelley HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley is not well - he reads Lucan'Percy Bysshe Shelley LucanBellum Civile / PharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 12 Canto of Tasso & two acts of Troilus and Cressida'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'Mary Shelley Alexander PopeIliad of Homer / Odyssey of HomerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'Mary Shelley Bernardin de St PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'Mary Shelley Alexander PopeIliad of Homer / Odyssey of HomerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Prisoner of Chillon &c. to Mrs G'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronPrisoner of Chillon, The, and other poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'Mary Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'[Mr] Gisborne Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'Mary Shelley Edmund SpenserFowre HymnesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'Mary Shelley Edmund SpenserEpithalamionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'Mary Shelley Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriMyrrhaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'Mary Shelley Vincenzo MontiCajo GracchoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1800-1849'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams. [...] 'Wedn...Claire Clairmont William GodwinCaleb WilliamsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams.' Claire Clairmont Horace WalpoleThe Castle of OtrantoPrint: Book


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