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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'[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [Francesco] Petrarch [Petrarco]Il trionfo della MortePrint: 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. ... ; I also read all Bacon's "Essays" ....Mountstuart Elphinstone [Francis] BaconEssaysPrint: 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] ... ; "The Robbers" and two ...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Friedrich] SchillerThe robbers [and two other plays]Print: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time/ Is sharpen'ed from its hi...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [George Gordon, Lord] [Byron][Don Juan - Canto the Third]Print: Unknown
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 includes] Berkeley's essay on "T...Mountstuart Elphinstone [George] BerkeleyThe principles of human knowledgePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they...John Mitchel [George] [Allan?][biography of Walter Scott]Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, regarding editing of The Convention of Cintra: 'I have alluded to the blasphemous address to Buonaparte made by some Italian depu...William Wordsworth and Thomas De Quincey[Italian deputies] Anon[address to Buonaparte]Print: Serial / periodical
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart writing on the Cowpax talks/ gravely of a most horrib...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [James?] Beresford[On vaccination]Print: Unknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors close/ To gather round an aching breast/ The curtain...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [James?] MontgomeryNightPrint: Unknown
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] Boswell's "Life of Johnson;...Mountstuart Elphinstone [James] BoswellLife of [Samuel] JohnsonPrint: 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] a good deal of Condorcet on...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de] CondorcetThe Human UnderstandingPrint: 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] Aitkin's "Essay on the Use o...Mountstuart Elphinstone [John?] AikinEssay on the use of natural historyPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter [John] Collins[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'Percy Bysshe Shelley [John] Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'.Percy Bysshe Shelley [John] Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was su...Benjamin Brierley [John] [Cleave]Cleave's Weekly Police GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this year doth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that ...Samuel Pepys [John] [Phillips?]Montelion, the prophetical almanac for the year 16...Print: Pamphlet, almanac
1600-1699'This morning the King's proclamacion against drinking, swearing and debauchery was read to our ships' companies in the fleet; and indeed it gave great satisfaction to al...Samuel Pepys [King] [Charles II]A proclamation against debauched and profane perso...Print: Broadsheet
1600-1699'And so home to supper; and after reading a good while in the Kings "works", which is a noble book - to bed.'Samuel Pepys [King] [Charles I]The workes of Charles IPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton [Madame] de Genlis Print: Book


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