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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy talked about the [drunken] Queen of Patterdale ... We ...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerPrologues from the Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hugh James RoseProlusio in Curia Cantabrigiensi recitataPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[end underlining] commonplace that I have found it qu...Mary Shelley Stendhal [pseud.]Promenades dans RomePrint: Book
1900-1945I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in technique. . . . I’m now reading Stendhal’s 'Promenades dans Ro...Arnold Bennett StendhalPromenades dans RomePrint: Book
1900-1945‘[ … ]they have made me billet warden, which sounds grand, and is grand; as it leaves me time and enough to spare for reading. No new books can come to me now, as my ...Ivor Bertie Gurney AeschylusProméthée (or Prométheus) enchaînéPrint: Book
1800-1849We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusPrometheusPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ...George Gordon Lord Byron Aeschylus PrometheusPrint: Book
1850-1899'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus [?]PrometheusPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that is English as exercises) a translation of a Chorus fr...George Gordon Lord Byron AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'S. translates Promethes Desmotes and I write it'Percy Bysshe Shelley AeschlyusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 March 1828: I have reconsidered Io [...] I quite agree with you in admiring the night visions, the geographical descriptions...Elizabeth Barrett Aeschlylus Prometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849'R[obert] B[rowning] wrote seven and a half pages of comments about E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett]'s revised translation [of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound], and ended with...Robert Browning Aeschylus Prometheus BoundManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of...Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel)Aeschlylus Prometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. February 2nd, 1832: "A little of the Prometheus tonight"Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. February 3rd, 1832: "While he was asleep, I went on with my Prometheus."Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. February 4th, 1832: "A lovely day! – Busy with my Prometheus. I have finished the 370th line. Reading what I have written to Bro who approves very much ind...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. February 6th, 1832: "Hard at work at the Prometheus. Finished the translation of lines. Who cd. write in a diary after that?"Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. February 7th, 1832: "Translated a hundred lines of Aeschylus. Up & at work both today & yesterday before breakfast"Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. February 8th, 1832: "Up before breakfast, at — Finished another hundred, in spite of Mrs. Trant & Mr. Curzon"Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. February 11th, 1832: "Intended to have finished the Prometheus today. Not possible"Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book


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