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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'Sunday June 24th. [...] Read the Abbot by Walter Scott'.Claire Clairmont Walter ScottThe AbbotPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hamlet'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday June 25th. [...] Read Melincourt'.Claire Clairmont Thomas Love PeacockMelincourtPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday June 29th. [...] Read the Quarterly. Review of Southey's Life of Wesley [notes several anecdotes given in this]'.Claire Clairmont anonreview of Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley (1820...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus [sic] of Euripides'Percy Bysshe Shelley EuripidesHippolitusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read King Lear'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Othello'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Julius Caesar'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday July 11th. Read Edgeworth's Memoirs. [...] 'Thursday July 12th. [...] Read Life of Edgeworth -- I think their system seems to aim at making the mind s...Claire Clairmont Richard Lovell and Maria EdgeworthMemoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. Begun b...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read King John - & Livy'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] July 24th. Shelley comes to breakfast. Read Adonais.'Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonaisUnknown
1800-1849'Wednesday July 25th. [...] Read Sandford and Merton.'Claire Clairmont Thomas Love DayThe History of Sandford and MertonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday July 29th. [...] Read Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress.'Claire Clairmont Thomas MooreTom Crib's Memorial to CongressPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Forsyth's tour'Mary Shelley Joseph ForsythRemarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Forsyth's tour'Mary Shelley Joseph ForsythRemarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the merry Wives of Windsor'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareMerry Wives of Windsor, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Huon de Bourdeaux a Roman de la Chevalerie'Mary Shelley [unknown][a tale in] Bibliotheque Universelle des DamesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday August 5th. [...] Begin Cabale und Liebe [sic] of Schiller.' [also records reading this text on 6, 10, 11, 12 ('Sit at home all day & read Cabale und Liebe [...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerKabale und LiebePrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner S. reads the first Book of Paradise Lost to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book



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