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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'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Quotes Milton throughout work:V.1 pp 25,75,90,101,169,190; V.2 pp118,206; V.3 p.87. Ex. Letter XI To Miss Reid, Glasgow, Fort William, May 17 1773 V.1 p.90 'If Fort Aug...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John Milton[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849"Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in/childhood & shew'd me his face./Ezra came with Isaiah the Prophet, but Shakespeare in riper/ years gave me his hand...William Blake John MiltonunknownUnknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin John MiltonParadise Lost
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin John MiltonAreopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin John MiltonLycidas
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gradually acquired me the place in her favour which I ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John MiltonParadise lostPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'Mary Shelley John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, "Paradise Los...Mountstuart Elphinstone John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, "Paradise Los...Mountstuart Elphinstone John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... ; many of...Mountstuart Elphinstone John Milton[Latin poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.Thomas Carlyle John MiltonProse worksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plat...Mary Shelley John MiltonTenure of Kings and Magistrates, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S walks - & reads I book of Paradise Lost in the evening.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon a[nd] 2 book of Paradise Lost.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Oct. 28th. [...] I walk out by myself about Kentish Town -- Read Comus.'Claire Clairmont John MiltonComusPrint: Book


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