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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
 
1700-1799''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon t...Samuel Johnson Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon t...Samuel Johnson Edward YoungLove of Fame, The Universal PassionPrint: Book
1850-1899''Libbie Marsh' I send too; one of my cousins liked it so much that I gave it to her, and she published it on her own behalf'.Fanny Elizabeth GaskellLibbie Marsh's Three ErasPrint: Book
1800-1849''Monday April 20th. Read the Life of Tasso by Marcantonio Serassi [sic].'Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849''Monday June 18th. Pack up [for departure to Pisa next day] [...] Read the Cavaliere del buon Gusto da Goldoni [sic].'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniIl Cavaliere di buon gustoPrint: Book
1800-1849''read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'Mary Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeZapolya: a Christmas tale in two partsPrint: Book
1800-1849''Sunday Sept. 17th. [...] Begin Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs.' Claire Clairmont James Touchet, Lord Audley, third earl of CastlehavenThe Memoir's [sic] of James Lord Audley Earl of Ca...Print: Book
1800-1849''Tennyson' has arrived safe, without a shadow of damage and thanks without end for it. I have been half-opening the pretty golden leaves, and peeping here and there at o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alfred, Lord Tennyson[Poems]Print: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		''The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrape...Gabriel Harvey Solomon The Song of SongsPrint: Book
1900-1945''The MS heralded by your letter arrived this morning. I've had the time to read it . it is wonderfully well done: technically and in the clearness of the idea it is supe...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Cosmopolitan (eventually known as A Knight)Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699''This day the parson read a proclamacion at church for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for the murther of the late King.'anon [unknown]A proclamation for observation of the thirtieth da...Print: Handbill
1800-1849''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner [Shelley] reads part of St Godwin aloud -- terrible nonsense [...] Re...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward du BoisSt Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, a...Print: Book
1800-1849''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner [Shelley] reads part of St Godwin aloud -- terrible nonsense [...] Re...Claire Clairmont Mary WollstonecraftlettersUnknown
1800-1849''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner [Shelley] reads part of St Godwin aloud -- terrible nonsense [...] Re...Claire Clairmont William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political ...Print: Book
1800-1849''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...] In the Evening read Political Justice -- Sit up till twelve.' ...Claire Clairmont William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political ...Print: Book
1800-1849''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...] In the Evening read Political Justice -- Sit up till twelve.' ...Claire Clairmont Thomas Jefferson HoggMemoirs of Prince Alexy HaimatoffPrint: Book
1900-1945''We are so glad to know you are both flourishing. We know of your Sicilian interlude from your letter to the "Times".'Joseph Conrad John Galsworthy Print: Newspaper
1800-1849''We talked a great deal of our poor friend, Lady E[-], and lady [-] said she thought the portrait of Imogen, in the Novice of St Dominic, was a fac-simile of her charact...Lady [-] Sydney OwensenNovice of St Dominic, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.' ...Percy Bysshe Shelley William Wordsworth'The Mad Mother'Print: Book
1800-1849''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.' ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book


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