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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'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'Mary Shelley Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' ArgensLettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosoph...
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'Mary Shelley Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' ArgensLettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosoph...Print: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinEnquiry Concerning Political JusticePrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate s[pinoza] - S reads the Aenied [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1850-1899'Translation enclosed, very literal, for the fun’s sake. I have taken stock/made acquaintance of the ["Treatise of Marine Works" which you have published in 1874 […] Kin...Robert Louis Stevenson Frederic AndreletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun...George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrEin Jahr in ItalienPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun...George Eliot [pseud] Georg Gottfried Gervinus[on Shakespeare]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Tried stout for lunch. At 10 p.m. had stout and strawberries and cream given me (after it was dark) by two of the sisters. God bless them! "P.U.O." seems rather a good i...Robert Lindsay Mackay ['some novels']Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945'Tries to read sports page, but ends up reading news. One girl does bad piece of work in mill. Immense black-out purchasing in town.' [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Try two of Schubert?s songs ?Ich ungl?cksel?ger Atlas? and ?Du sch?nes Fischerm?dchen?. They are very jolly.Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich Heine[poems]Unknown
1850-1899'Try, by way of change, Byron?s "Mazeppa", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it a fire, and a passion, and a rapid intuition of gen...Robert Louis Stevenson George Gordon Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tues. Parcel from Pemb. ... Read The Ashes of Vengeance by Sommerville.'William Thomas H. B. SomervilleAshes of Vengeance: A Romance of Old FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Tues. PC from Registrar. Read the Right of Way by Sir Gilbert Parker.'William Thomas Gilbert ParkerThe Right of WayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tues. Received letter from no one[.] Damnation[.] Reading Man & Superman by Bernard Shaw.'William Thomas George Bernard ShawMan and SupermanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 12th July. I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that they have something to tell which one is too stupid ...Gerald Moore Sylvia Townsend WarnerLolly WillowesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 14th December. ?Cheap Jack Zita? (Baring Gould)'. Gerald Moore Sabine Baring-GouldCheap Jack ZitaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 22nd June ?Jack Hamlin?s Mediation?etc.. (Bret Harte) Wednesday 23rd June A quiet day today and then last thing, neurotic attack. Went and joined the Library...Gerald Moore Bret HarteJack Hamlin's MediationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 24 August The ?Courier? poster today says ?World mourns Rudolph Valentino? ! It makes me glad he is dead, since he has become a tool whereby the press can red...Gerald Moore CourierPrint: Poster


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