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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'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finis...Mary Godwin August H.J. LafontaineWalther oder das Kind vom SchlachtfeldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finis...Mary Godwin Madame de Genlis[possibly one of] Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvel...Print: Book
1800-1849'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finis...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write and read the memoirs of the princess of Bareith'Mary Godwin Margrave de BariethM?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse...Print: Book
1800-1849'Write and read'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.Mary Shelley ApuleiusCupid and Psyche [from The Golden Ass]Print: Book
1800-1849'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.Mary Shelley Jean Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur ...Print: Book
1800-1849'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Baruch de SpinozaTractatus Theologico-politicusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.'Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasThe Island of TyphoeusManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'Mary Shelley Francis BeaumontWife for a Month, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontPhilaster, or Love Lies BleedingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Writing an addendum entitled "The Interruptions" to the copious journal which she kept in the early 1830s, Emily Shore gave a wry picture of the difficulties attendant o...Emily Shore and motherJoshua ReynoldsDiscourses on ArtPrint: Book
1900-1945'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: especially is this necessary for any Scot - since a l...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was published, spending the long summer holidays in the quiet of...Janet Courtney J. Henry ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'Writing in the seventh number (April 1924) of his new magazine Criterion, Eliot declared that the late "militarist by faith" T. E. Hulme "appears as the forerunner of a ...Thomas Ernest HulmeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Writing on liberty, arguing that its attainment was an inborn duty, he said that in order to divine its proper use one must "Listen to the still, small voice within you....Ralph Glasser Harold Joseph Laski[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped yesterday evening into a Bookseller's shop with a s...William Wordsworth George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped yesterday evening into a Bookseller's shop with a s...William Wordsworth Samuel RogersJacquelinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Writing to his sister on 11 January 1892 ... [Walter Raleigh] declared: "I have been reading Christina Rossetti -- three or four of her poems, like those of her brother,...Walter Raleigh Christina RossettipoemsPrint: Book


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