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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
 
1850-1899'Read some numbers of Blackwood and enjoyed myself much more than I should have done had I been gadding about in the wet.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read some of "Clouds".'John Ruskin AristophanesClouds, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read some of "The History of England".'Thomas Turner The History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Coleridge's "Friend", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry'John Ruskin Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFriendPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'.Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyThe Remains of Henry Kirke White. With an account ...Print: Book
1800-1849'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'.Mary Godwin Bryan EdwardsThe history, civil and commercial, of the British ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John MooreA Journal during a residence in France from August...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.Mary Godwin Joanna Baillie[plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read some of Schultze's book on Java, lent me by Herr v Ditman. We got in unexpectedly early, about 3. The port of Tanjon Priok has outer roads where some English mercha...Gertrude Bell unknown [?]SchultzeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'John Ruskin Edmund Spenser [?][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'John Ruskin Richard Hooker [?][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read some of Thackeray to Mrs Castieau & the youngsters this evening. The account of Master Augustus's visit to the pantomime delighted Harry very much & he could'ent he...John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read some of the Farinata Canto [Canto 10 of "La Divina Commedia"]' Gertrude Bell Dante AlighieriLa Divina Commedia Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of ...John Clare William Collins Collins'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of ...John Clare John Ogilvie'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various ...Print: Book
1800-1849'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he spea...John Clare William ShakespeareThe SonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he spea...John Clare Thomas Chatterton'Poems of Chatterton'Print: Book
1800-1849'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".'John Ruskin Sir John Gardner WilkinsonEgyptPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays'John Clare Vicesimus KnoxEssays Moral and LiteraryPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays'John Clare William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book


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