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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 Oct-- 9th [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel about the Illuminati'.Claire Clairmont William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct. 9th. [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel about the Illuminati'. ...Percy Bysshe Shelley L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday October 15th. [...] Read the Isabella or Pot of Basil by Keats [quotes four lines from stanza 10].' ...Claire Clairmont John KeatsIsabella, or the Pot of BasilPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday October [...] 23rd. [...] Read Tarlton with Johnny.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'Tarlton'Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday October [...] 30th. [...] Read Paul & Virginia.'Claire Clairmont Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.'Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 25th. [...] Read Smellie Philosophy [o]f Natural History.' Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 3rd. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.' [further readings of this text recorded in journal entries for 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 September 1820; 'Finish Clarissa H...Claire Clairmont Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday September 25th. [...] After breakfast [...] the newspapers were put by Catherine Ivanovna into my hand -- I glanced over them hastily as is my custom to see if ...Claire Clairmont newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came in in [...] his usual wild hurried manner [...] consented to play a Sonata...Claire Clairmont William RobertsonThe History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V....Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday [...] Oct. 9th. [...] I pack up [for family's departure from holiday home, following death of a child] & read the whole day Memoirs of Madame Campan.'Claire Clairmont Jeanne Louise Henriette CampanMemoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, re...Print: Book
1700-1799'Sunday [2 Apr.] We went to St. James?s Church?heard a very indifferent Preacher, & returned to read better sermons of our own chusing.' Frances Burney unknown[sermons]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 14th March, Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half our members. Reading ?Hamlet" ? the first time I h...Gerald Moore William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 20 June[.] Well-earned day off. Slept like the dead. Afternoon bath and change. Then lounge with an old paper. We are not allowed to leave camp.'William Fisher unknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Sunday, 21st February, Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with the help of a pin and a newspaper they lost or won pen...Gerald Moore Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore DunsanyA Night in the SunPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsThe Monkey's PawPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore Lady GregoryThe Rising of the MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore J.J. BellThread o' ScarletPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayThe Four GeorgesPrint: Book


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