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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'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 Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinEnquiry concerning . . . Political JusticePrint: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'Mary Godwin LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'Percy Bysshe Shelley [John] Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisNouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Queene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner S. reads the first Book of Paradise Lost to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'after dinner we parted I had a look at the papers at the Mechanics & then came home.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerPrint: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe GrandmotherPrint: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Faithless Nelly Gray'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Faithless Sally Brown'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Tim Turpin'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Ben Battle'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas HoodWhims and OdditiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at Saulieu, but I loved hearing it again; I want you to...Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf"memoir of Old Bloomsbury"Unknown
1600-1699'After dinner, to my chamber and made an end of Dr Powre's book of the Microscope, very fine and to my content'Samuel Pepys Henry PowerExperimental philosophy...containing new experimen...Print: Book
1600-1699'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent most of the afternoon and night reading and talking...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'after eight o'clock Harry & I went to "The Athenaeum" & after changing a book I went into the Reading room & had a look at the Papers Harry waiting for me outside until ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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