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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'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate entries based on this list] 'Symposium of Plato Pl...Percy Bysshe Shelley ApuleiusMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi - Fortifiocca)[end i...Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphoses (3rd fable)Print: Book
1800-1849'read the 4th and 5th fables of Ovid'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphoses (4th and 5th fables)Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads...Percy Bysshe Shelley OvidMetamorphoses (vii)Print: 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...Percy Bysshe Shelley OvidMetamorphoses - story of MyrrhaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdita' in the margin; p. 479 the text 'Quin etiam blan...John Drummond Erskine OvidMetamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the argument...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley ApuleiusMetamorphoses; or, The Golden AssPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.Mary Shelley ApuleiusMetamorphoses; or, the Golden AssPrint: Book
Marginalia Many pencil sidelines in the Introduction. Donne, against l.52 "cf Good Friday" Herbert, The Collar "surrender to the will of God"; Aaron "old things a...Francis Robert Longworth-Dames Herbert J C GriersonMetaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the seventeenth cen...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantMetaphysische Anfangsgrunde der NaturwissenschaftPrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaCharles RollinMethod of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres...Print: Book
Evidence of engagement with the text: (1) occasional marginal notes; (2) marginal symbols throughout the text, crosses (ex. pp. 1,5,12), underlines (pp. 16, 520-1), score...Jo. Halkerston Conradus LagusMethodica iuris traditio, seu ratio compendiaria, ...Print: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. The...Gabriel Harvey and Thomas PrestonJean BodinMethodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionemPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] in M.S. & I then expressed my opinion of their merit...George Gordon, Lord Byron Bernard BartonMetrical EffusionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it" - which I am not so cer...Thomas Carlyle Joanna BaillieMetrical Legends of Exalted CharactersPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 10 March 1826: '[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer and a remarkable antiquary. He publishd a collecti...Walter Scott Henry WeberMetrical RomancesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Since leaving Oxford I have had quite a little opportunity for reading and have read all kinds of things, some of the better books being: Conan Doyle's "Micah Clar...Roderick Ward Maclennan Arthur Conan DoyleMicah ClarkePrint: Book
1900-1945[following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried outside it to contemplate the endless senseless tortur...Edward Morgan Forster E. H. CarrMichael BakuninPrint: Book
1900-1945'Out training signallers and observers. The former very efficient, the latter the very reverse. We are to move on the 21st. Heard that my school (Hillhead H.S.) are sendi...Robert Lindsay Mackay Gene Stratton-PorterMichael O'Halloran: A NovelPrint: Book


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