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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[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Beverley NicholsMesmerPrint: Book
1800-1849'you must see Esdaile's book. If there are any sane persons who still doubt "the truth of Mesmerism", that book must cure them, or show them incurable. But you ought to k...Harriet Martineau James EsdaileMesmerism in India and its Practical Application i...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Anton MesmerMesmerismusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your sad Messenger is just arrived. I had again been cherishing Hopes, when the day of Hope was clean gone. Compose yourself, my beloved Wife, and try to feel that the...Thomas Carlyle Jane Welsh CarlyleMessage about Aunt's deathManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgri...mother of Joseph Wright Friedrich KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'Shall I send your subscription copy of the Messiah, or keep it till you come? I admire many things in it ext...Catherine Talbot Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers, he was asked by Mr Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin verse, as a Christmas exercise. He performed it wit...Samuel Johnson Alexander PopeMessiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil'...Print: Book
1700-1799"Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly attached to Ovid, whose Metamorphoses I read at scho...William Wordsworth OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699"The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote: "'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me. "'The 14...Maria Ovid MetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'Samuel Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'Elizabeth Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'the Storry [of Philemon and Baucis] pleases mee, none in Ovide soe much. I remember I cryed when I read it, mee thought they were the perfectest Characters of a con[ten]...Dorothy Osborne OvidMetamorphosesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassin...Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some lines of Ovid before breakfast'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbo...Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read over the Ovid to Jefferson'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book


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