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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
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Warburton prop...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, of fancy, as it is, - seems to me, like much of this ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If this had been in Cibber, Cibber would never have he...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Here begins a noble series of scenes. I know not...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of Romeo is sublime beyond expression; and the manner ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact....Alice Foley William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Romeo and Juliet"'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: T...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday March 10th. [...] Read Romeo and Juliet.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric': 'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[end italics]: one's taste and critical faculties, th...Edward Morgan Forster William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and beginning this letter to you. I had a kitten & my te...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945'It certainly is a grievous pity that Shakespeare filled Romeo and Juliet with those appalling rhymes. But the worst thing in the play is old Capulet's preposterous spe...Clive Staples Lewis William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRomische ElegienPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Then I promised Morley to contribute to a continuation of the 'Men of Letters' series a book upon George Eliot. I find it very hard to tell you the truth. I admire Engli...Leslie Stephen George EliotRomolaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'.George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.)RomolaManuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
1850-1899'Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'.George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.)RomolaManuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
1900-1945'My desultory and totally unorganised reading of George Eliot, Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Carlyle, Emerson and Merejkowski made little impression upon this routine, though t...Vera Brittain George EliotRomolaUnknown


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