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

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Thomas Brown: "I took an axe of Jones the same evening afterwards; that was on the Tuesday evening and on Wednesday the...Thomas Brown  Print: Handbill
1700-1799"[in Aug. 1787 Dorothy Wordsworth] reported that 'I am at present [reading] the Iliad' ... "Dorothy Wordsworth HomerIliadPrint: Book
1700-1799"On 21 Sept 1798, Klopstock read to W[ordsworth] and C[oleridge] 'some passages from his odes in which he has adopted the latin measures' (Wordsworth, Prose Works vol. 1...Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock[odes]Unknown
1700-1799"In late Nov. 1795, W[ordsworth] wrote to [Francis] Wrangham: " ... we see only here a provincial weekly paper ..."William Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799"[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] once left the young W[ordsworth] in his study for a moment and returned to find him reading the Opticks."William Wordsworth Isaac NewtonOpticksPrint: Book
1700-1799"Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly attached to Ovid, whose Metamorphoses I read at scho...William Wordsworth OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Butt: "On the 26th of August I took in two gravy spoons... Two days after...a handbill came in; I read it over, and thought...Henry Butt  Print: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: William Aldus: "I am a servant to Mr Salkeld; I produce four table-cloths, and twelve napkins, which I received from the prisoner...William Aldus  Print: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Price: "I was standing reading a playbill that was stuck up, the prisoner came and laid his hand on my shoulder as before,...Robert Price  Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Price: "I was standing reading a playbill that was stuck up, the prisoner came and laid his hand on my shoulder as before,...Joseph Pead  Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for coining: "Arthur Cross deposed, that he was reading the newspaper at the Black RAven in Fetter-lane about six weeks ago, wherein Mr Coop...Arthur Cross  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Feling: "I was at the Lion in the Wood reading the newspaper, there was Esq; Henson's coachman, then came the prisoner..."Abraham Feling  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Isaac Reeve: "After this I happened to read in the Newspaper of a quart silver tankard being stole in the prosecutor's house. I w...Isaac Reeve  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Everill knew John White had been charged with stealing a trunk as it was read to him from a newspaper by a landlady named Fox 2 o...Edward Everill  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Sharpling: "last Thursday was with [the prisoner] between four and five o'clock, he was very much in liquor, this was a... Sharpling  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Q: "Do you know when Cox was taken up?" Taylor: "I saw it in the newspaper"John Taylor  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas Crocket: "I keep Pan's Coffee-house in Castle-street; on the 9th of November last, the prisoner came into my house, betwee...George Watson  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspaper, whether this bill, which I suspected to be stol...Henry Barnard  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspaper, whether this bill, which I suspected to be stol...Henry Barnard  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: John Williamson: "I went and got a pennyworth of gin. I had a newspaper in my hand; she said she had found a purse with bank note...John Williamson  Print: Newspaper


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