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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
 
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 William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareMeasure for measurePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899"Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -'Albert Battiscombe William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'Thomas Fremantle William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best place in the world for reading Shakespeare. Asheham...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1800-1849'I likewise turned into Charles Bossut's Mecanique - to study his demonstration of pendulums, and his doctrine of forces. The text is often tediously explanatory - & in ...Thomas Carlyle Charles BossutMecaniquePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture o...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow LaplaceMecanique CelestePrint: Book
1600-1699'reasons out of Aristotle Mechanicks which I had very lately read' [explain a vision].Henry More AristotleMechanicksPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series of huge figures in the sky," including "that of an o...Henry More Aristotle MechanicsPrint: Book
1800-1849had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday.Anne Lister William EmersonMechanics or The Principles of MechanicsPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson mechanics' magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett EuripidesMedeaPrint: Book
1900-1945"It was when reading Gilbert Murray's rendering of Euripides' Medea, by the side of the [Shrewsbury School] cricket field, that [Neville] Cardus was noticed by the headma...Neville Cardus EuripidesMedeaPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Medea Euripedes [sic]'Percy Bysshe Shelley EuripidesMedeaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: '& now to literary subjects. Glover has written the two Tragedies of Boadicea & Medea. in the f...Robert Southey Richard GloverMedeaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian translation of Euripides. -- A pretty good one, I f...Catherine Talbot Euripides MedeaPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of the 5th volume of "Medical Essays and Observations", published at Edinburgh by a society of physicians.' Thomas Turner anonMedical Essays and Observations, revised and publi...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook John Edward SquireMedical Hints for the Use of Medical OfficersPrint: Book


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