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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 Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontTragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S finishes the Trajedy to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontTragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother ...Print: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Hester Lynch Thrale Francis BeaumontBonducaPrint: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Hester Lynch Thrale Francis Beaumont[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday March 18th. [...] Read the Woman Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. Excellent Spy scene which would apply to the present ministers.' [...] 'Sunday March 1...Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherThe Woman HaterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's prize or the Tamer tam'd by Beaumont & Fletcher.' Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherThe Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'dPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherThe Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'dPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.' Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherWit at Several WeaponsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.' Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherWit Without MoneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 27th. [...] Read Noble Gentleman of Beaumont & Fletcher.' Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherThe Noble GentlemanPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836: 'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, with respect to the old dramatists! -- for indeed I ...Elizabeth Barrett Francis Beaumont and John Fletcherplays (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end ita...Elizabeth Barrett Francis Beaumont and John FletcherplaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading a very thick fiction book, although we have to give them in by Monday. Dangerous!... We had a super day doing nothing! I read the whole time "My Brother Jo...Hilary Spalding Francis Brett YoungMy Brother JonathonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was deeply engag'd in Homer & Burgesdicius, otherwise should have answer'd it [letter from John Potter] sooner. I hope you don't think I preferr'd the old musty Greek...Richard Hurd Francis Burgerdiscius [Burgersdijk]Institutionum LogicarumPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare sa...John Wilson Croker Francis Cohen'Astrology and Alchemy'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 15 September 1907: 'I have just read [Francis Cornford's] Thucydides Mythistoricus. It seems to me rather good, except that as a book...Leonard Woolf Francis CornfordThucydides MythistoricusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Frank's notes on F., and I am quite delighted with them. The picture is so minute and exact that it is like a written photograph, and so full of tend...Emma Darwin Francis DarwinPreparatory notes to 'The Life and Letters of Char...Manuscript: Preparatory notes for 'The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin', edited by Francis Darwin.
1800-1849'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus, which had before excited my attention'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Espinasse[prospectus]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 14 November 1807: 'Miss Trimmer [former governess and companion] went out of town yesterday morning and I...Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer and Lady Harriet CavendishFrancis Garden'travelling Memorandums'Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Macintosh October 3 1796 'Have you read Lord Gardenstone?s Sketches, or detailed observations, I believe they are? It is very much the kind of reading that ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone[Sketches?]Print: Book


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