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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'Trade awfully bad the money market depressed and deplorable accounts from the manufacturing districts ... says the "Morning Chronicle"'.Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Trade very dull - weather very wet and rather windy as predicted by Murphy'.Joseph Jenkinson Patrick MurphyThe Weather Almanack, 1838-39Print: Book, almanac
1900-1945'Train was very full. . . . I was fortified with sandwiches, apples from Brede, some knitting and a Wilkie Collins novel.'Vere Hodgson Wilkie Collins[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Transacted ordinary business during the day & spent the evening at home lazily reading a book.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Transcribe Mazeppa'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Transcribe Peacocks poem'Mary Shelley Thomas Love PeacockRhododaphne; or, the Thessalian SpellPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Transcribed and altered a sermon of my grandfather's on the text "And if I be lifted up will draw all men to me" [...]'Benjamin Newton grandfather of Benjamin Newton [sermon]Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"'John Fortescue Aland Nathaniel MarshallA defence of our constitution in church and stateUnknown
1800-1849'Translate Apuleius'Mary Shelley ApuleiusGolden Ass, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry IV Part IPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Mary Shelley [n/a]EcclesiastesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Mary Shelley [n/a]Song of SolomonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Mary and Percy ShelleyBaruch SpinozaTractatus Theologico-politicusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - ...Mary Shelley Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de CondorcetVie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivi...Print: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - ...Mary Shelley Niccolo MacchiavelliLa vita di Castruccio Castracani da LuccaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - ...Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneid [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'Mary Shelley Torquato Tasso[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book


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