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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'Sunday August 20th. [...] Read Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe.' Claire Clairmont Johann David WyssThe Family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Fathe...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday August 5th. [...] Begin Cabale und Liebe [sic] of Schiller.' [also records reading this text on 6, 10, 11, 12 ('Sit at home all day & read Cabale und Liebe [...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerKabale und LiebePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec 2nd. [...] Read Julius Caesar of Shakespeare.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareTitus AndronicusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareHenry IV part IPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareHenry IV part IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 9th. [...] Begin the Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto.' [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 16, 17, 19, 20 December 1821].Claire Clairmont unknown'Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto'Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.Claire Clairmont Henry CoxePicture of Italy: Being a Guide to the Antiquities...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Torquato TassoLa Gerusalemme liberataPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday evening is the only time I do read, - I spend over an hour reading the "News of the World".' [n/a]News of the WorldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Sunday Feb. 11th. [...] Read Das Lied von der Glocke by Schiller.' [further/other readings of this text (or sessions translating it) also recorded in journal entries ...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerDas Lied von der GlockePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Feb. 13th. Begin Locke's essay on the Understanding'. Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Feb. 22. [...] Read Berrington's History of the Middle Ages.'Claire Clairmont Rev. Joseph BerringtonA Literary History of the Middle AgesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Feb. 8. [...] Read Helen Monteagle by A. Lefanu Stupid foolish Book.'Claire Clairmont Alicia LefanuHelen MonteaglePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday I dined with Captain Castle and did not go to Church but read the Bible at home.'William Richard Grahame BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jan. 2nd. 1820 Florence Read a little Spanish -- Los Cabellos de [...] Absalon de Calderon de la Barca.'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLos Cabellos de AbsalonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jany. 16th. [...] Read the Life of Themistocles which a beautiful monument to the glory & virtue of the Athenians [goes on to comment in detail on text].' Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of ThemistoclesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jany. 30th. Read Rousseau sur Les Arts & Les Sciences -- a piece of most extraordinary Prejudice and envious wailing -- It had better have been entitled a Disqui...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscours qui a remporte le prix a l'Academie de Di...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Sunday Jany. 9th. Finish the Life of Romulus and half that of Lycurgus.'Claire Clairmont Plutarch Lives of Romulus and LycurgusPrint: Book


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