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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'Wednesday Sept. 14th. Get up late -- Write my journal [...] Read the Papers.' Claire Clairmont newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 20th. [...] Read Miss Brooke's Irish poetry. [...] '[...] finish Miss Brooke's Irish poetry'. [goes on to reproduce passages from the following ...Claire Clairmont Charlotte BrookeReliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poe...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.' Claire Clairmont Virgil unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie.' Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 29th. [...] Read Smellie.' Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea [...] read Catholic deputation with Mr. Gambs in Hessey & Taylor's Mon...Claire Clairmont Charles RollinunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea [...] read Catholic deputation with Mr. Gambs in Hessey & Taylor's Mon...Claire Clairmont review of Shute, Lord Bishop of Sarum, A Letter to...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] January 11th. ...] read Ritter Gluck by Hoffman with Mr. Gambs.'Claire Clairmont E. T. W. Hoffmann'Ritter Gluck: Eine Erinnerung aus dem Jahre 1809'Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] After dinner M. Gambs reads aloud the 3, 4, 5, and 6th. Canto of Moses [goes on to comment upon this text in detail].'Claire Clairmont Chretien-Hermann GambsMoses (Cantos 3, 4, 5, 6)Unknown
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] I unpack and arrange my things [on arrival at employers' country property and read a little of Wilhelm Meister.' [readings from this...Claire Clairmont GoetheWilhelm Meister's LehrjahrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] June 8th. [...] I read Wallenstein and give my lessons.' [readings in this text also recorded in journal entries for 9, 13, 15, 17, 26 June 1825, wit...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] November 2nd. [...] A packet of Newspapers from Mr. Baxter. I sit in my room & read them all the evening.'Claire Clairmont newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] October 5th. [...] Read the Edinburgh Review.' Claire Clairmont Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Wednesday, 10th February, Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates. Read ?Omoo? (Melville)' Gerald Moore Herman MelvilleOmooPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 17th March, Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O. K. though the humour is hardly my line ? ?De Heiny ...Gerald Moore Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 21st April, Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on Friday. I might get an idea from the London highbro...Gerald Moore unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 24th March, Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up in these periodical excitements. I neither know a...Gerald Moore Joseph ConradAlmayer's FollyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 27th January, Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bursary to Oxford or Cambridge. We talked of the diffi...Gerald Moore Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 3rd February, Reading ?The Compleat Angler? (I. Walton). This your real ?open air? book. It is so quaint and so nice in these shallow times that it is one lo...Gerald Moore Isaac WaltonThe Compleat AnglerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 7th April, Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-health. Read ? ?Journal of the Plague Year? (Defoe)'. Gerald Moore Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague YearPrint: Book


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