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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[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, The
1850-1899'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'Robert Louis Stevenson Geoffrey ChaucerunknownUnknown
1850-18996 July 1853: 'Read three first characters of Chaucer's Prologue.'Lady Charlotte Guest Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales (Prologue)Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the first book of Troilus & Cressida aloud in the evening.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CriseydePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939: 'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all sense that one differed from another. I am reading...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read "Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the im...Joseph Conrad Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.' Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Cannon St. Bought a paper with Hitler's speech. Read it o...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Geoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's TalePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but nothing else & no explanation of that. now tho I have use...Robert Southey Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fit i) [i.e. section 1] respectively'.Charles Stansfield Geoffrey ChaucerRhyme of Sir ThopasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fit i) [i.e. Section 1] respectively'.Elizabeth Edminson Geoffrey ChaucerPrioress' TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Violet Wallis Geoffrey ChaucerKnight's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Helen Rawlings Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Alfred Rawlings Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Ernest E. Unwin Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Mary Robson Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Rosamund Wallis Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book


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