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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'Wednesday Dec. 6th. [...] Read a Canto of Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'Mary Shelley Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read 2 Canto's of Dante with Shelley - he reads Livy and Winkhelmann aloud'Mary and Percy ShelleyDante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud'Mary Shelley Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi - & the Purgatorio'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dant...Mary Shelley Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Pu...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'Percy and Mary ShelleyDante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: 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
1800-1849'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'Mary Shelley Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 3rd Canto of l'Inferno'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriParadisoPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it stiff, the meaning more than the language, I think.' ...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A desire to read poetry set in on Friday. This brings bac...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriunknownPrint: Book


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