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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
 
1800-1849'[During autumn 1817] she [Lady Byron] was well and happy with M. G. [i.e. her friend Lady Gosford] at Kirkby, reading Cicero and admiring his rejection of Expediency, "h...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Cicero  Print: Book
1600-1699'[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I was then engaged in a laborious trade and not allow...Thomas Tryon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [T...Arthur Hallam Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [T...Alfred Tennyson Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [T...Alfred Tennyson Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [T...Arthur Hallam Sir William Blackstone Print: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'Arthur Hallam Susan FerrierDestinyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'Arthur Hallam Susan FerrierInheritancePrint: Book
1850-1899'[During the 1880s Gissing] continued to read Latin and Greek authors daily'.George Gissing [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li...John Brown Karl Marx Print: Book
1900-1945'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li...John Brown George Bernard Shaw Print: Book
1900-1945'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li...John Brown Friedrich Engels Print: Book
1800-1849'[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoParmenidesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoTimaeusPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Edgar Wallace recalled] the teacher read aloud "The Arabian Nights". "The colour and beauty of the East stole through the foggy windows of Reddin's Road School. Here wa...Edward Wallace AnonArabian NightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Edith] Hall recalled that she discovered Thomas Hardy in a WEA class in the 1920s when "Punch and other publications of that kind showed cartoons depicting the servant ...Edith Hall Thomas HardyTess of the d'UrbervillesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words. A family friend having tried to shake EH's religious faith,] To terminate this state of doubt, which to her ardent temper was insupportable, she took th...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'If no engagement intervened, the interval from seven till ten was occupied with some interesting book, which, according to her good aunt Marshall's rul...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'On reading the first sheets [of her "Cottagers of Glenburnie"] at her own fire-side, she was encouraged by observing, that it excited mirth. This induc...Elizabeth Hamilton Elizabeth HamiltonCottagers of Glenburnie, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference fo...Elizabeth Hamilton Dugald Stewart[unknown]Print: Book


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