the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Mary and Percy Shelley : Aminta

'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : Aristodemo

'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire

'We read Anacharsis'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : [unknown]

'read 2 Canto's of Dante with Shelley - he reads Livy and Winkhelmann aloud'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age

'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : Paradise Lost

[Mary Shelley's Reading List of texts read by both herself and Shelley in 1819. All texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'M&S Histoires des Republics Italiennes par Sismondi Forsyth's tour Boccacio Dante's Paradiso and Purgatorio Several plays of Shakespeare - Beaumont and Fletcher &c. Ben Jonson Voyages d'Antenor Massinger 4 vols of Clarendon Paradise Lost Remorse - Undine - Novels &c &c'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : Tractatus Theologico-politicus

'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : Aeneid

'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : [unknown]

'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : [unknown]

'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : First Epistle

'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : Georgics

'Begin the Georgics with S.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : Georgics

'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : [unknown]

'Read Horace with S in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

Mary and Percy Shelley : Histories

'read Herodotus with S.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

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