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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'Thursday Jany. 13th. Finish the Life of Solon'.Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of SolonPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 [sic: should be 13] August 1850, during stay with the Rev. G. Cooke, Cubington: 'I have been reading [italics]Southey's Lif...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Life of SoutheyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 26 July 1847: 'We passed the time [at the monastery at Vallombrosa] till monday, .. reading the Life of San Gualberto ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning unknownLife of St Giovanni GualbertoPrint: Book
1800-1849'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in "The Lives of the English Saints" (These lives were small biographie...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown]Life of Stephen LangtonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Sheridan's "Life of Swift"....'Thomas Green Thomas SheridanLife of SwiftPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Hawkesworth's "Life of Swift"....'Thomas Green John HawkesworthLife of Swift [in Works of Swift?]Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Edmund Gosse, whilst suffering from illness, 10 October 1912: 'I receive with pleasure the small Swinburne [biographical essay by Gosse, originally intende...Henry James Edmund Gosselife of SwinburnePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic ...Margaret Oliphant John Addington SymondsLife of SymondsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two ...Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.'Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot and intrigue of this play is excellent.'Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 18. Read the Life of Tasso. Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849''Monday April 20th. Read the Life of Tasso by Marcantonio Serassi [sic].'Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf unknownLife of TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent evening dancing, and reading Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee".'Hilary Spalding Maurice MaeterlinckLife of the Bee, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Anne Bronte, diary paper for 31 July 1845 'Emily is engeaged [sic] in writing the Emperor Julius's life She has read some of it and I want very much to hear the rest ......Emily Bronte Emily BronteLife of the Emperor Julius (? Gondal story)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I lie contentedly enough, and amuse myself with a book which Qasim, seeing me in pain, has brought me in his kindness. It is his most treasured possession, a life ...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon]Life of the Prophet MuhammadPrint: Book
1600-1699'Here was mighty good discourse, as there is alway; and among other things, my Lord Crew did turn to a place in the "Life of Sir Ph. Sidny", wrote by Sir Fulke Grevill,...Lord Crew Sir Fulke GrevilleLife of the renowned Sir Phillip SidneyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan, in "The Life of Swift", which he afterwards published, attempting, in the writhings of ...James Boswell Thomas SheridanLife of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, The Manuscript: Unknown


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