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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'Tuesday May 16th. [...] Read Plays by Farquhar.'Claire Clairmont George FarquharplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorio (Cantos 9 and 10)Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont AlfieriMirraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday May 23rd. [...] Read Boswell's Life of Johnson.' [records of reading this text also appear in entries for 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 May 1820]Claire Clairmont James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday May 25th. [...] .'Claire Clairmont BoccaccioDecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Nov. 1st. [...] Breakfast. Read Louvet's Memoirs.' Claire Clairmont Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvraymemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited Fanny [Godwin] for a husband [...] [Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at t...Claire Clairmont William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited Fanny [Godwin] for a husband [...] [Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at t...Claire Clairmont Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierrePaul and VirginiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political Justice & talk with Shelley over the fire till -- 12 o'clock.' ...Percy Bysshe Shelley L'Abbe Augustin BarruelMemoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political Justice & talk with Shelley over the fire till -- 12 o'clock.' ...Claire Clairmont William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to Pancrass. Read Smellie in the Evening.' ...Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to Pancrass. Read Smellie in the Evening.' ...Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very s...John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss WhiteCharlotte SmithCelestinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very s...John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss WhiteTobias SmollettThe expedition of Humphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday visited a little girl in University College Hospital. . . . She was in a bomb-proof basement and looked blooming and happy, reading Angela Brazil.'Anon Anon Angela Brazil[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 13th April, Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehearsal fell through however owing to the Settlement b...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayEnglish Humourists of the Eighteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 2nd March, Club ? Mr Graham White?s lecture postponed. Members went into the Local History Society?s meeting, except the Committee which met to discuss entert...Gerald Moore VillehardouinMemoirs of the CrusadesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 30th March, Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players are taking up all his time. Bal. Lear takes his pla...Gerald Moore Honore de BalzacLa Peau de ChagrinPrint: Book


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