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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'Read Letters from Norway'Mary Shelley Mary WollstonecraftLetters written during a short residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin: 'Tuesday August 30th. [...] About four...Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftLetters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin: 'Wednesday August 31st. [...] Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftLetters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Thursday September 1st. R...Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftLetters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday [...] June 1st. [...] Read Letters from Norway. [...] 'Friday June 2nd. [...] Read Rights of Woman & Letters from Norway. [...] 'Sunday June 4th. [...Claire Clairmont Mary WollstonecraftLetters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 28 April, 1797: 'Have you ever met with Mary Wollstonecrafts letters from Sweden & Norway? she has made me in love with a cold climate ...Robert Southey Mary WollstonecraftLetters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Warden's account of Buonuparte [sic]. Whether or not W wrote this account with a view to influence his readers in favour of Buonaparte I know not but I think there ...Benjamin Newton William WardenLetters written on board [...]in which the conductPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just been reading 'The Letters, Conversations', &c., of this extraordinary man - and must give thee this idea conveyed in a letter to one of his friends' [q...Eliza Ellis Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLetters, Conversations and Recollections of Samuel...Print: Book
1800-1849‘...it is very cruel in people whom I never injured to publish my father’s natural complaints of my delinquencies to the million whom they concern not - still worse to ...Hartley Coleridge Thomas AllsopLetters, Conversations and Recollections of Samuel...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Finished Lord Bacon's Letters, edited by Birch. It is grievous to see this great man, who appears from various passages fully sensible of his vast powers and attainment...Thomas Green Francis BaconLetters, speeches, charges, advices, &c. of Franci...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 19 July 1797: 'If you can get me any poetical information about the River of Amazons I shall be glad — but I must have no ...Robert Southey Isabel Godin des Odonais Lettre Contenant la Relation des Madame Godin (par...Print: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 31 October 1790: 'Burke's pamphlet is to appear tomorrow, and Calonne has published a thumping one of 440 pages [Lettre sur l'Etat de la Fra...Horace Walpole CalonneLettre sur l'Etat de la France, present et a venirPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Read Horace and Lettres de Sevigne'Mary Shelley Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Marquise de SevigneLettresPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'Mary Shelley Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SevigneLettresPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp...Henry James Honore de BalzacLettres a l'EtrangerePrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'Mary Shelley Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' ArgensLettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosoph...
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'Mary Shelley Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' ArgensLettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosoph...Print: Book
1700-1799'Looked over a Volume of "Lettres Choisies de Mesdames Sevigne et Maintenon"...'Thomas Green Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise S?vignLettres choisies de Mesdames de Sevign? et de MainPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 17 October 1850:

'Accept my thanks for some hours of pleasant reading. Balzac was for me quite a new author, and in making...
Charlotte Brontë George Sand (pseud.)Lettres d'un voyageurPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Francoise de GraffignyLettres d'une Peruvienne



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