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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
 
1700-1799Thomas Moore on encountering W[ordsworth] in Paris on 24 Oct. 1820: 'A young Frenchman called in, and it was amusing to hear him and Wordsworth at cross purposes on the s...William Wordsworth Jean RacineAthalieUnknown
1850-1899'I have been reading John Racine: it is very standard − damnd[sic] standard, I beg your pardon.[…] I like John Racine, however; the noise is very pleasing and as un...Robert Louis Stevenson Jean RacineunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849?We saw at Brussels two of the best Paris actors, and Madame Talma. The play was Racine?s Andromache (initiated in England as the Distressed Mother.) Madame Talma played ...Maria Edgeworth Jean RacineAndromachePrint: Book
1700-1799'This evening the fine trajedy of Racine "Andromaque" was read I did not hear all the play but I have read it before'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Jean RacineAndromaquePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'In the evening I wrote to Mary Montalban and to her husband, and we read "Les Plaideurs" which made us laugh like fools'.Elizabeth Wynne and othersJean RacineLes PlaideursPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have finished "Telemaque," and have read one, or two of Racines plays, which I like very m...Elizabeth Barrett Jean RacineplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boileau's. How much one should like both, if it were not...Mary Russell Mitford Jean RacineLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & tease...Virginia Woolf Jean Racine Print: Book
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson Jean Racine Print: Book
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson Jean Racine Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Conrad's face would cloud over. He would snatch up a volume of Racine and read half a dozen lines.'Joseph Conrad Jean RacineunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Jean Racine[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Jean RappMémoires écrits par lui-mêmePrint: Book
1900-1945'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere...Rosamond Lehmann Jean RhysVoyage in the DarkPrint: Book
1900-1945'I could begin to read one of the books that had been given me ... and lose myself in another world. [Followed by a list of books read]'Eileen Lawrence Jean WebsterDaddy-Long-LegsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Jean Antoine du CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'Mary Godwin Jean Antoine Du CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jean Antoine DuboisDescription of the Character, Manners and Customs ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean Antoine de CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi'Mary Godwin Jean Antoine de CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book


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