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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'During our Oxford years the works to which she turned most frequently were Shakepeare's "Richard II", Raleigh's "Discovery of Guiana", Milton's "Areopagitica", the writi...Winifred Holtby William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished the Lady of the Lake. – I read all the notes. I have also read these plays of Shakespeare. John. Richard 2d. Henry 4th & I am now reading Henr...William Henry Fox Talbot William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of Richard the 3rd and the scene with Lady...William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. read Richard III'. George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve -- Go to the Cheval. Read King Richard III. & King Lear. Quite Horrified -- [I] can't describe my feeling...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at four.' Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at one & goes to Shelley. Read King Richard the Third -- Dine by ...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Richard III in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'I should be sorry the saying were verified in him So wise and young they say never live long.'Walter Scott William ShakespeareRichard IIIUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue: 4.2.36
    Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.

...		Members of the XII Book ClubGordon DaviotRichard of BordeauxPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 3 June 1800: 'I worked in the garden before dinner. Read R[ichar]d Second -- was not well after dinner ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareRichard the SecondPrint: Book
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Ernst Heinrich Philipp August HaeckelRiddle of the UniversePrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday [...] Dec. 12th. [...] read some of Schiller's riddles'.Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerriddlesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'.George Eliot Edward Bulwer LyttonRienziPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', headed 'Bugiasta or Pagiastra, or something of the kind;...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Russell MitfordRienziPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think it ["Rienzi"] extremely clever; some scenes are very powerful, and capable of being wrought into a most effective play.'W.C. Macready Mary Russell MitfordRienziManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of "Rienzi", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown away, for, as [Rev William] Harness can bear witness, ...Alexander Dyce Mary Russell MitfordRienziPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, v...Mary Howitt Mary Russell MitfordRienziPrint: Book
1800-1849'i have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, v...Mary Howitt Edward Bulwer LyttonRienziPrint: Book


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