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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
 
1600-1699'After a little discourse with him, I took coach and home, calling upon my booksellers for two books, Rushworths and Scobells "collecions" - I shall make the King pay for...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to my office and spent an hour or two reading Rushworth; and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to my office and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which is very fine; and then to do a little business agai...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'He being gone, and I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I alway[s] learn something, I to read a little in Rushworth; and so home to supper to my wife'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the evening to the office, where I stayed late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the beginning of the late quarrels in this kingdom. And so h...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionPrint: Book
1600-1699'Then home to dinner; and after dinner to read in Rushworths "Collections" about the charge against the late Duke of Buckingham, in order to the fitting me to speak and u...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett John RuskinUnto this LastPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and C...questionaire respondent John Ruskin[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 1885 and 1889, Grant Duff reflected [in diary for 14 A...Grant Duff John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Through reading Unto This Last ... Violet Markham -- who was brought up at Tapton House, set in 85 beautiful Derbyshire acres -- began to realise that her luxuries were ...Violet Markham John RuskinUnto This LastPrint: Book
1850-1899The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partridge, read [Ruskin's] Sesame and Lilies [1865] and [M...Millicent Duchess of Sutherland John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on Manchester. (I will put it all right in the next ed...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinThe Political Economy of ArtPrint: Book
1850-1899"He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote 3 on letter W 38. "Writing in 1865, Lady Waterford,...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinCestus of AglaiaPrint: Book
1850-1899"Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to bed so unhappy, that all was wrong and out of joint...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1850-1899"Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the sermon on to myself and be the better for it... Yours...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinCrown of Wild OlivesPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver want of the book. [The Elements of Drawing, which had b...Anna Blunden John RuskinThe Elements of DrawingPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the title, but I do not care about re-publishing the thing...Anna Blunden John RuskinNotes on the Construction of SheepfoldsPrint: Pamphlet


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