Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

 

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1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...Catherine McMullen Geoffrey ChaucerPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth, on visit to Catherine Clarkson at Bury St Edmunds, to William Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, 14 A...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary r...Wordsworth FamilyGeoffrey ChaucerunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'A rainy morning ... I read a little of Chaucer, prep...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 2 December 1801: 'I read the Tale of Phoebus and the Crow ...'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Maunciple's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer a...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'I read Palamon and Arcite.'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy ta...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerPrologues from the Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy ta...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Man of Law's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 24 December 1801: 'We sate comfortably round the fire in the Evening, ...Wordsworth FamilyGeoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 26 December 1801: 'After tea we sate by the fire comfortably. I read ...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Miller's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 30 October 1802: '... [William Wordsworth and Stoddart] surprized us by their a...?John Stoddart Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: 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
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Before tea I sate 2 hours in the parlour. Read part of The K...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal...G.A.W. Tomlinson Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899"H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ...H. M. Swanwick Geoffrey ChaucerPrint: Book
1850-1899'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h...Frederick Willis Geoffrey ChaucerPrint: 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 gre...James Williams Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Geoffrey ChaucerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...Allen Clarke Geoffrey Chaucer[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was...John Masefield Geoffrey ChaucerThe Parliament of FowlsPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began ...Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Geoffrey ChaucerPrint: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq...George Darwin Geoffrey ChaucerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I did "The Knightes Tale" all my prep. time and like it'.Hilary Spalding Geoffrey ChaucerKnight's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."Hilary Spalding Geoffrey ChaucerKnight's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer's Prologue. I had been depressed and ill ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr...George Eliot [pseud.] Geoffrey Chaucer[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'.George Eliot [pseud] Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, ThePrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699
Extracted by G. C. Moore Smith from J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, "Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet"(1879): 'There was ...Gabriel Harvey Geoffrey ChaucerWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, The
1850-1899'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth...Robert Louis Stevenson Geoffrey ChaucerunknownUnknown
1800-1849'S. reads the first book of Troilus & Cressida aloud in the evening.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CriseydePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939: 'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all ...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: 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...Joseph Conrad Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.' Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ...Alfred Tennyson Geoffrey ChaucerPrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ...Alfred Tennyson Geoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's TalePrint: Book
1850-18996 July 1853: 'Read three first characters of Chaucer's Prologue.'Lady Charlotte Guest Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales (Prologue)Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but not...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...Oscar Wilde Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fi...Charles Stansfield Geoffrey ChaucerRhyme of Sir ThopasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fi...Elizabeth Edminson Geoffrey ChaucerPrioress' TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Violet Wallis Geoffrey ChaucerKnight's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Helen Rawlings Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Alfred Rawlings Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Ernest E. Unwin Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Mary Robson Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Rosamund Wallis Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Charles Evans Geoffrey Chaucer[poetry, including the General Prologue]Print: Book
1900-1945

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

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

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

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

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

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

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerThe Wife of Bath's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales

 

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