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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'Monday October 23rd. Do a fable and a half of Phaedrus. [...] '[Tuesday] October -- 24th. Do 5 and a half fables from Phaedrus.' [further readings in this auth...Claire Clairmont Phaedrus fablesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] October -- 24th. [...] Read a little of Bolingbroke's Political Works.' Claire Clairmont Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke'Political Works'Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday October 27th. [...] Begin Istoria Civile di Napoli da Ginannone.' [records of reading this text also appear in journal entries for 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14 November ...Claire Clairmont Pietro GiannoneDell'Istoria civile del regno di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Nov. 8th. [...] Read Lamia by Keats.' Claire Clairmont John KeatsLamiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Nov. 10th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'Claire Clairmont John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Nov. 11th. [...] Read the 1st. Act of Prometheus unbound.'Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Nov. 19th. [...] read Conversazione da Bondi.'Claire Clairmont Clemente Bondi'Le Conversazioni: Poemetto'Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday Nov. 24th. Read Newspapers.'Claire Clairmont NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Thursday Nov. 30th. [...] Read the [...] Novella of Belfegor da Macchivelli.'Claire Clairmont Belfegor da MachiavelliNovella piacevolissimaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Dec. 2nd. [...] Read 1 Canto of Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Dec. 6th. [...] Read a Canto of Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Dec. 11th. Begin the Observations of Macchiavelli upon the Decades of Livy.'Claire Clairmont Niccolo MacchiavelliDiscorsi ... sopra la prima deca di Tito LivioPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Dec. 12th. [...] Read Indicators by Hunt'.Claire Clairmont Leigh HuntIndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Wednesday Dec. 13th. [...] Read Indicators'.Claire Clairmont Leigh HuntIndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Thursday Dec. 14th. [...] I read today some sonnets of Petrarch in an old edition -- Not the least attention was paid there to the concord of the gender & number of th...Claire Clairmont Petrarch sonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.Claire Clairmont Henry CoxePicture of Italy: Being a Guide to the Antiquities...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Torquato TassoLa Gerusalemme liberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Dec. 26th. [...] Read Allemagne by Madame de Stael.' [readings from this text also recorded in journal entries for 27, 28, 29 December 1820; and 3 and 5 J...Claire Clairmont Germaine de StaelDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Jany 10th. [...] Read Sintram by Baron de la Motte Fouque.'Claire Clairmont Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte-FouqueSintram and his Companions: A RomancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1. (1820), and Retrospective Review II (1820)].'Claire Clairmont Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no....Print: Serial / periodical


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