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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 pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: "Hints for the times", true and useful, but a painful instance of the weak and conventional writing whic...John Ruskin George SmithHints for the timesPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'John Buckley Castieau Mary Elizabeth BraddonMarried Beneath HimPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of St Leon'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin William GodwinSt. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley John Chetwode EustaceTour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley TheocritusIdyllsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a portion of Harvey's Theron and Aspasio...'John Cole James HerveyTheron and AspasioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips "Tour".'John Cole Richard PhillipsTourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips' Personal tour.'John Cole Sir R PhillipsPersonal TourPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'.Mary Godwin William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Lodovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a very elegant piece of criticism, intitled "A Letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton", on his late Edition of Milton?s "Juvenile" Poems...'Thomas Green Samuel DarbyA letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton, on his late ed...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read a very searching book called Meads Almost Christian. Did not dare read it til I had sought the lord, that he would not suffer Satan to apply what was not my portion...Arabella Davies Matthew MeadEn Oligos Christianos: The Almost Christian Discov...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read acct of the "Tailor Bird".'John Cole [unknown][Account of the Tailor Bird]Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...'Thomas Green Adam SmithEssays on philosophical subjectsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'.George Eliot [pseud.] AeschylusunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'.George Eliot BurlamacchiLife of SavonarolaPrint: Book


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