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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
 
1800-1849Diary entry. February 14th, 1832: "The Prometheus not finished after all"Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. February 15th, 1832: "I have finished my translation. lines of Aeschylus translated in a fortnight. I think I am satisfied — tolerably satisfied. But the...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. March 5th, 1832: "As soon as I cd. get into Mr. Boyd’s room, I went there. He made me read his preface & some additional translations. He had had my extra...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. July 16th, 1831: "After dinner we had a little more of the Seven Chiefs; & I heard him recite some of the Prometheus; & then we talked; and at half past 7 ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundUnknown
1800-1849Diary entry. October 18th, 1831: "From thence I went in to Mr. Boyd who had breakfasted. I spent a happy day with him, hearing him repeat passages from the Prometheus, ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundUnknown
1800-1849Diary entry. October 20th, 1831: "Was in Mr. Boyd’s room before nine. Heard him say over the passages in the Prometheus"Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusPrometheus BoundUnknown
1850-1899'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... S...Rose Macaulay Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Nov. 11th. [...] Read the 1st. Act of Prometheus unbound.'Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1800-1849'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundUnknown
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him as much, as I can do a man who holds himself so f...Thomas Westwood Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1900-1945'... I read seriously only on week-ends.... "Comus" being finished, its place was taken by Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" which I got half through. It is an amazing wor...Clive Staples Lewis Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: 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

...		Francis E. Pollard Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Aeschylus Prometheus VinctusPrint: Book
1800-1849'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'Mary Shelley Edward WilliamsPromise, The; or, a Year, a Month, and a DayManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'full of good & useful matter'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth James Kay-ShuttleworthProof of a report on Battersea Teacher-Training Sc...Print: Unknown
1800-1849I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a quarter of a volume of Proofs, or I should have answer...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleProofsPrint: Proofs
1800-1849'Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets toge...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleProofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings'Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets toget...Jack Carlyle Thomas CarlyleProofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings'Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter
1700-1799'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when the Booksellers begged him a Place in the Edition th...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles ChurchillProphecy of Famine, a Scots PastoralPrint: Book


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