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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 Tacitus and les lettres d'una Peruviana'Mary Shelley Madame de GraffignyLettres d'une PeruviennePrint: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] owned and read the French translation of Coxe during his residence in France, 1791-2."William Wordsworth William CoxeLettres de M. William Coxe a M. W. Melmoth sur l'e...Print: Book
1900-1945'I know the work of Paul Adam very little and all I have in the house is his "Lettres de Malaisie".Joseph Conrad Paul AdamLettres de MalaisiePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Round the Fire Stories by Conan Doyle. Joined the Library. Started Lettres de Mon Moulin Par Alphonse Daudet. No sign of peace. Will it last another year 2:1 it wil...William Thomas Alphonse DaudetLettres du Mon MoulinPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delig...Henry James Charles de BrossesLettres familieres ecrites d'Italie en 1739 et 174...Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 25 November 1842: 'You have no idea of the amusement of reading De Brosses over again here [Rome]. ...Harriet Countess Granville De BrossesLettres Historiques et Critiques sur l'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Bred et de MontesquieuLettres persanesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de MontesquieuLettres persanesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'Mary Shelley Charles de Secondat, baron de la Brede et de MontesquieuLettres persanesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Mill on "Liberty", ran a sentence from one of the Elizabethan docume...Vera Brittain Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1900-1945'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by the seventeenth-century philosopher, Thomas Hobbes....Vera Brittain Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek n/aLeviticusPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'As classes were large and teachers few, individual tuition was scant. The three R's were the basic subjects, and scripture study took up a big slice of the time. And thr...Vero Walter Garratt LeviticusPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even in reading the "Lewes Journal" I found the following remarkable character, which I admire not for the diction, but for the justness of it and for imitation: ...Thomas Turner Lewes JournalPrint: Newspaper
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that n...Samuel Johnson Georgii PasorisLexicon Graeco-Latinum in Iesu Christi Domini Nost...Print: 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'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud'Mary Shelley Thomas MoreLibellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Utopia'Mary Shelley Thomas MoreLibellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, ...Print: Book


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