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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'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giul...Percy Bysshe Shelley John FletcherDouble Marriage, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes his critique & then reads Edgar Huntley to us all all day and all the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Brockden-BrownEdgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walkerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Gaius Plinius SecundusPanegyricusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley Quintus Curtius Rufus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Mary Godwin August H.J. LafontaineCarl Engelmann's TagebuchPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Mary Godwin Virgil[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley... brings home Wordsworth's Excursion of which we read a part - much disapointed - He is a slave'.Mary Godwin and Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'She[a distant Polish relative of Conrad]spoke of you, told me you were her cousin, that you always loved reading Jules Verne's travels, etc., etc.'Joseph Conrad Jules Verneunknown (see notes below)Print: Book
1900-1945'Shopped and tried to find some books. Succeeded at last in getting "The Great Ship", the play by Linklater that JG was in last year on the wireless.' [NB "The Great ...Hilary Spalding Eric LinklaterGreat Ship, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'short as all his are, & excellent as almost all are'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas ArnoldSermon on the text 'except ye eat the flesh of the...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Shortly after its first appearance in Hayley's Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), Lamb copied ... out ['On the Loss of the Royal George'] in a letter to W[or...Charles Lamb William CowperOn the Loss of the Royal GeorgePrint: Book
1900-1945'Shortly after we arrived, a writer in "Harper's Magazine" inquired, "Is this a Christian land?" and went on to comment regretfully: "Many of us seem almost hopelessly en...Vera Brittain Harper's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Shortly afterwards Victor Gollancz issued a pamphlet, entitled "Fascists at Olympia", which contained statements from eye-witnesses, vistims of assault, and doctors who ...Vera Brittain anonFascists at OlympiaPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'Should you, my dear friend, be desirous of perusing a variety of remedies, equally judicious as well as efficacious with those of Mr Wesley, you will meet with ample sat...James Lackington Antoine-Joseph PernetyThe History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkla...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shower over the Breven as I returned (after sitting under a vast rock, rich with Alpine rose, reading Mr Ritchie's tract, "Catholick and Apostolick Church") and past awa...John Ruskin J.S. DavenportEdward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic ChurchPrint: Pamphlet, tract
1900-1945'Showery. Read Truth about an Author ... Letter from Bess.'William Thomas Arnold BennettThe Truth About an AuthorPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shrapnel and pieces of shell were falling all about us and we expected every minute to be our last ... It was a rotten half hour ... During this bombardment a London ...Horace Bruckshaw London TelegramPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Siegfried Line with Two French soldiers. The chief is reading a letter from his mother: "How are you getting on?" Air raid shelter at end with notice: "Keep out of the s... letter from his motherManuscript: Letter


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