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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 Don Juan'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Don Juan'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on...Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Cain'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronCainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Vision of Judgement'.Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronVision of Judgment, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'S. reads L.[ord] B.[yron]'s - Heaven and Earth in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronHeaven and EarthManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronWernerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'read Sardanapalus'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronSardanapalus, a TragedyUnknown
1800-1849'Read the Two Foscari'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronTwo Foscari, TheUnknown
1800-1849'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I...Elizabeth Missing Sewell George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor his muse'.Princess Caroline Princess of Wales George Gordon, Lord Byron'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte'Unknown
1800-1849'Your descriptions of your travels do indeed set my feet moving, and my heart longing to see all you have seen; and this desire has been increased by reading the "Corsair...Susan Ferrier George Gordon, Lord ByronCorsair, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'As you like sometimes high treason, I send you a copy of the verses written by Lord Byron on the discovery of the bodies of Charles the First and Henry the Eighth: you m...Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales George Gordon, Lord Byron[possibly lines from 'The Corsair' =- 'Weep, Daugh...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have got the fourth canto to day - It is a glorious morsel!'James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (canto IV)Print: Book
1800-1849'if you have no [italics] odd things [end italics] lying about you which I daresay you do not lack there are many pieces among those you published in your youth which are...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron[juvenile poems]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the bes...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the bes...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronCorsair, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must be Lady B's. He is not equal to Moore for [italics]...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy of your two last poems kindly sent to me by Murray, t...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Siege of Corinth, The'Print: Book


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