the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Thomas Mayne Reid : "The Headless Horseman"

'"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excited by the printed page that they passed on the fun they had found, and thus... I was introduced to Mayne Reid, and again to Harrison Ainsworth, with "The Headless Horseman" and "Rookwood"".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Tomlinson      Print: Book

Mayne Reid : The Giraffe Hunters

'Stayed at Home all the evening reading “The Giraffe Hunters”.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Mayne Reid : The Giraffe Hunters

'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters” then I smoked & drank gin & water'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

Mayne Reid : The Ocean Waifs

'Boys finishing their maps. Finish reading to them Ocean Waifs.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Bickersteth Cook      Print: Book

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