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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899 "If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy to read some of the old dramatists, being prompted by...Leslie Stephen William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'Albert Battiscombe [unknown][lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Wormwood Scrubs I lent a work on Henry VIII to a jewel thief. When he returned it, he remarked that he had enjoyed it very much and, if I had another similar book, he... [unknown][Henry VIII]Print: Book
1800-1849'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'Thomas Fremantle William ShakespeareHenry VIPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry VIPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Henry VI aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry VIPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 30 September 1797: '... this took a strange turn when I was about nine years old. I had been reading the historical plays of...Robert Southey William Shakespeare[history plays, particularly Henry VI, Parts I and...Print: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 10 February 1829: 'I read over Henry's History of Henry VI and Edward IV. He is but a stupid historian after all.'Walter Scott The Revd. Dr. R. HenryHistory of Great Britain; from the invasion of Jul...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am going on with my reading of Shakespeare's historical plays, and yesterday I came on the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, and the death of Beaufort; and Tennyson...Fanny Allen William Shakespeare2 Henry VIPrint: Book
1600-1699In the year 1622 he was chosen reader, and read upon the statute 32 H.8, cap 2, concerning lymitations. . . .After the recept of the writreturnable the tearme following h...John Bramston Statute 32 Henry VIII cap. 2 and statute 13 Eliz. ...Manuscript: Codex


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