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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
 
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807: 'Read a little of the "Lamento di Cecco," which, having often heard of, I had never seen before. It is a beautiful, simple, but not ...Mary Berry Francesco Baldovini'Lamento di Cecco'Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francesco BaldoviniLamento di cecco da VarlungoUnknown
1850-1899'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'George Eliot [pseud] Francesco Filelfo[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)Le Rime di Francesco PetrarcaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'George Eliot Francesco Petrarch[Letters]Print: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a very civil Canonico Bandini, showed us the Virgil of ...Mary Berry Francesco Petrarchannotations to manuscript copy of works of HoraceManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'Mary Shelley Francesco Petrarch[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'George Eliot [pseud.] Francesco Sachetti[stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ...Thomas Carlyle Francesco SoaveNovelle MoraliPrint: Book
1700-1799'[in a conversation about journals, Boswell said] "And as a lady adjusts her dress before a mirrour, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal." I next year...James Boswell Francis Atterbury[Funeral Sermon for Lady Cutts]Print: Book
1700-1799'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning sev...Samuel Johnson Francis Atterbury[Sermons]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neit...Percy Wall Francis Bacon Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in which...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Bacon"apophthegms"Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in whiic...William Fletcher Francis Bacon"apophthegms"Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- an...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Bacon"apophthegms"Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BaconNovum OrganumPrint: Book
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt Francis Bacon Print: Book
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1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Francis Bacon, Essays: "'Villain! Did Christ seek the Praise of the Rulers?'"William Blake Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
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1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Lo...William Blake Francis BaconThe Advancement of LearningPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays these are.'John Clare Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book


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