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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'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os...Samuel Bamford James MacphersonOssianPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843: 'I have read only a small part of Ossian [...] I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation upo...Hugh Stuart Boyd James Macpherson (as 'Ossian')Ossian poemsPrint: Book
'I have read your Poem. I like it better than any of the preceding ones.'William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesOswald, A Metrical TalePrint: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha...Mary Ward William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Mary Berry, Journal, 2 January 1822, during stay at Guy's Cliff: 'Mrs Siddons read "Othello," the two parts of Iago and Othello quite [italics]a merveille[end italics].'Sarah Siddons William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'I did not move from my chair but reached for a book. Picked up a Shakespeare and read the closing scene, "Othello".' William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello, Moore of Venice", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play; but having so lately read "The Adventures of five h...Samuel Pepys William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespear...Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Othello'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Chorus in Macbeth & would insist upon his audience enc...Castieau familyWilliam ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words: too many I should say, were I reviewing for the Ti...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1700-1799'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist the circumstances of suspicion which were artfully sug...Samuel Johnson William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1700-1799'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist the circumstances of suspicion which were artfully sug...James Boswell William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'Oct. 4th [1863] I walked over alone to Farringford [...] Tennyson at luncheon [...]we went down and wa...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been devoting this week to the reading of Othello, which I like as well as any Shakespeare play I have read. The part of Iago, to my mind, is something of a ble...Clive Staples Lewis William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?17 March 1837: 'I have read your play [Otto of Wittelsbach] my dearest Miss Mitford, & so you will be obliged to read my ...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordOtto of WittelsbachManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'All I can say is that when seen from the top of a building, from whence the eye takes it in at one view, it does not look nearly so large as it seems to be when you walk...Joseph Banks Francois ValentijnOudt en Nieuw Oost-IndiePrint: Book
1900-1945'To King's funeral at noon [Alexander King-Clark, Knocker's brother-in-law, who had committed suicide]. R.I.P. he did his bit and I think it is for the best. Lunch at Wes...Guy Mainwaring Knocker Jeffery FarnolOur Admirable Betty: A RomancePrint: Book


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