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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
 
1500-1599'after dinner I went about the house, and read of the arball'Margaret Hoby William TurnerNew herballPrint: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell all most supper time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I wrought and read tell 4, and then I walked a litle abroad and, after I Cam home, read and [torn] tell all most 6'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'After dinner it was warmer and I sat on deck and read "Les Cosaques". I finished Putnam Neale's "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" in the afternoon, a curious book.' Gertrude Bell unknownLes CosaquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'After dinner it was warmer and I sat on deck and read "Les Cosaques". I finished Putnam Neale's [sic] "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" in the afternoon, a curious book.'...Gertrude Bell B. L. Putnam WealeIndiscreet Letters from Peking: being the notes of...Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner look over W. W.[ordsworth]'s Poems'.Mary Godwin William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][French]Print: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson Alexander PopeDunciad, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson Alexander PopePastoralsPrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson John DrydenAbsalom and AchitophelPrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Alexander Pope Samuel JohnsonLondon: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareTwo Gentlemen of VeronaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'After dinner read a part of "Northanger Abbey", which I do not much like. Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on one topic.'William Charles Macready Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read Hermsprong'Mary Godwin Robert BageHermsprong: Or Man as he is not. A novel. By the A...Print: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassin...Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire...Print: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassin...Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassin...Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown][work in Italian]Print: Unknown


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