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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
 
1900-1945'On the terrace in the evening he would read Plato aloud, especially the "Phaedo", the final pages of which never failed to move him to tears. To the end of her life Elin...Lord Alfred Milner PlatoPhaedoPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Edgar Castle PlatoPhaedoPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved


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4. The Subject ...

Thomas C. Elliot PlatoPhaedo [The account of Socrates' death]Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and Memoirs of Marmontel.' Claire Clairmont Plato PhaedonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 December 1829: 'I have been reading over again Plato's Phaedon [...] The reasoning seems to me very inconsecutive & inconcl...Elizabeth Barrett Plato PhaedonPrint: Book
1900-1945I can remember at the age of fourteen the tranquillity which a first reading of the Phaedon, the death of Socrates, gave me - a widening of the bounds of life which...Freya Stark Moses MendelssohnPhaedonPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads ye Phaedrus of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoPhaedrusPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes Phaedrus'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoPhaedrusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour's command, to call to the feast only the poor, the ...John Ruskin PlatoPhaedrusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have a great dislike to having no book 'on hand'; so I made a pilgrimage to our Permanent Library, determined if possible to seize upon Plato. To my great pleasure t...Eliza Ellis Plato PhaedrusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Edith B. Smith Lewis CarrollPhantasmagoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have had a great literary experience this week. I have discovered yet another author to add to our circle — our very own set: never since I first read "The well at t...Clive Staples Lewis George MacdonaldPhantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and WomenPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Ludwig TieckPhantasusPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:] 'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, that I may return it to her? if not, when you write, pr...Catherine Talbot Gautier de Costes de la CalprenèdePharamond; or the History of FrancePrint: Book
1600-1699[Marginalia]: 5 pp of ms notes on the original binding pages, some difficult to decipher. Appear to be recipes eg 'Take a reed ..orke[?], plurke him quirk then/ slitt him...Andrew Greirson Nicholas CulpeperPharmacopoeia LondinensisPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4 December 1792: 'I have already said too much. I have an old poem of the heroic class before me. Pharonnida — one of the Can...Robert Southey William ChamberlaynePharonnida, a Heroick PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoub...Elizabeth Barrett William ChamberlaynePharonnida, an Heroic PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Lucan PharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...Thomas Carlyle LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dant...Mary Shelley LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book


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