Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. I read to him the life of Ben Jonson, and some short poems of his, which were too interesting for him, and would not let him go to sleep. I had begun with Fletcher, but he was too dull for me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book
'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clarke Print: Book
'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a play of Flechers, being "A wife for a month" - wherein no great wit or language.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methinks.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Shelley reads the first act of the faithful Shepherdess aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of
Beaumont & Fletcher.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Read the Chances'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 February 1837:
'I have been reading & rejoicing in your Faithful Shepherdess. The general conception & plan are
feeble & imperfect -- do you not admit it? but the work in detail -- how prodigal it is in exquisite
poetry'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giuliano - Reads the double marriage aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
