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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
 
1850-1899'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty or...Mr Murphy [unknown][a French magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty or...Mr Murphy [n/a]Rambler, The Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[a young man] Mr Allen - resolved to take Orders and made proper Application: The Bishop asked him of course what he had read. why but little replied he to be sure, for ...Mr Allen Soame JenningsFree Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of EvilPrint: Book
1900-1945'[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] bouleversant [italics] as to convert me to the Friends. Ca...Antonia White John WoolmanJournal of John Woolman Print: Book
1900-1945'[A. A.] Milne ... [became] a decided anti-militarist after reading Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" (1910) ...'Alan Alexander Milne Norman AngellThe Great IllusionPrint: Book
1900-1945'[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At last we understood what was meant when, during Scriptu...Stan Dickens [anon]Aristotle's MasterpiecePrint: Book
1700-1799'[according to Thomas Campbell] he begged of me that when I returned to Ireland, I would endeavour to procure for him a poem of Dr Madden's called "Boulter's Monument". T...Samuel Johnson Samuel MaddenBoulter's MonumentManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[Ada Byron's] mother wrote [to Ada's tutor]: "There are no weeds in her mind; it has to be planted. Her greatest defect is want of order, which mathematics will remedy. ...Ada Byron PaisleyGeometryPrint: Book
1900-1945'[After lunch] I shall come back and begin an article I am to write about the technique of the novel for Canby - suggested by a book of E.M. Forster's, which is pretty ba...Ford Madox Ford Edward Morgan ForsterAspects of the NovelPrint: Book
1700-1799'[After sighting land believed by captain and crew of Jamaica Packet to be Graciosa, island in the Azores] the next thing was to get the Captain to ly to, as it was very ...Janet Schaw and other passengers on board Jamaica PacketThomas SalmonA New Geographical and Historical Grammar Print: Book
1800-1849'[Alfred Tennyson's] grandmother, the sister of the Reverend Samuel Turner, would assert: "Alfred's poetry all comes from me." My father remembered her reading to him, wh...Mary Turner George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Prisoner of ChillonPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Alice] Foley continued her education by attending night school after going to work full-time in the mill when she was thirteen. She remembers choosing "Jane Eyre" as a...Alice Foley Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Alida Klementaski] and Harold Monro first met at a poets' club dinner at the Cafe Monico on 14 March 1913. The subject was the nineties poet John Davidson [...] Alida,...Alida Klementaski John DavidsonunknownUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan [n/a]Roget's ThesaurusPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan F.H. BradleyAppearance and RealityPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Immanuel KantGroundwork of the Metaphysic of MoralsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure ClassPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward John Milton[unknown]Print: Book


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