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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth, on visit to Catherine Clarkson at Bury St Edmunds, to William Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, 14 August 1810: 'In the afternoon we looked over half th...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer aloud, and Mary read the first canto of The Fairy Que...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy talked about the [drunken] Queen of Patterdale ... We ...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerPrologues from the Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 24 December 1801: 'We sate comfortably round the fire in the Evening, and read Chaucer.'Wordsworth FamilyGeoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Mary read the Prologue to Chaucer's tales to me in the morning.'Mary Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerPrologue to The Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer's Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds see...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'.George Eliot [pseud] Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, ThePrint: 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 Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, The
1850-18996 July 1853: 'Read three first characters of Chaucer's Prologue.'Lady Charlotte Guest Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales (Prologue)Print: Book
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read "Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the im...Joseph Conrad Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but nothing else & no explanation of that. now tho I have use...Robert Southey Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

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Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales (General Prologue)Unknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

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Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerThe Prioress's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

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Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerThe Wife of Bath's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales
1900-1945(1) 'With the Chaucer I am most awfully bucked: it is in the very best Everyman style — lovely paper, strong boards, and — aren't you envious — not one but two bits of ...Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book


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