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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 a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Alain-Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of "Paradise lost"'Albert Battiscombe John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of Bede's accounts of miracles of St Oswald, and much vexed and disgusted.'John Ruskin St BedeAn Ecclesiastical History of the English PeoplePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of Dombey & Son which I had lent me last evening by Mr Reed.'John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin PetroniusSatyriconPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'.Mary Godwin PetroniusSatyriconPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'.Mary Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvraiM?moires de Louvet de CouvraiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonVolpone, or the FoxePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonAlchymist, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'Mary Shelley Francis Beaumont[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas MooreLalla Rookh: an oriental romancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful picture of the state of the church at that time - pl...John Ruskin W. OrmeLife and Times of Richard BaxterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.'John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1800-1849'read a little Sir Joshua'John Ruskin Sir Joshua ReynoldsThe Works of Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a little, drank a little & smoked a good deal'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Read a lot of John Gielgud's autobiography. He is no writer but it is interesting nevertheless.' Vere Hodgson John GielgudEarly StagesPrint: Book


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