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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'The "Morning Chronicle" of this day announced the death of Henry Lord Brougham... The editor very kindly and very justly bewails his death.' [NB Brougham had not in fact...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The "Morning Chronicle" says the troops are to be withdrawn from France.'Benjamin Newton [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849?I forward you a Chronicle with Hogarth?s beautiful notice.?Charles Dickens The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'They say a black mare of mine (not the one I ride, but a beautiful one) has broken its back. This is all the news I have, ex...Lady Caroline Lamb The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Recd from WM the Morning Herald of Friday, which pleased me to find him so attentive, to what he knows gives me satisfaction; I am now beforehand with the knowing ones I ...Robert Sharp The Morning HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (February 1834): 'I see with delight that your journey is over in the "Morning Herald."'Harriet Countess Granville The Morning HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the battle of Buonaparte, the destruction of the Custom Ho...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been discussion in ye. Courier & I read in ye. Mo[rning] Po...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but "The Times" and "The Morning Post"; the latter for its c...Henry James The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter ...Edward Morgan Forster The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘I saw Rupert Brooke’s death in the "Morning Post". The "Morning Post", which has always hitherto disapproved of him, is now loud in its praises because he has confor...Charles Hamilton Sorley The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I a...Phyllis BottomeThe Mortal StormPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "The Mother".'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownThe MotherPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Then died lamented in the strength of life 1827 "Called not away, when time had loosed each hold/ On the fond ...C.M.G. [anon] George CrabbeThe Mother's FuneralPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Mourner' 'The following [erased] pensive lines will accord with the sympathies of the feeling heart: the parent sinks under the loss of a beloved husband and...Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxAmelia OpieThe Mourner: Another on the same subjectUnknown
1700-1799Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile Charles SedleyThe Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two VolumesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I still remember my feelings when I finished "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". I was afraid, but this fear made me discover something I've never forgotten since: fear, yo...Alfred Hitchcock Edgar Allan PoeThe Murders in the Rue MorguePrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Edgar Allan PoeThe Murders in the Rue MorguePrint: Book
1900-1945'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ever? Perhaps not. He was one of the ?New Age? crow...Winifred Agnes Moore A.L. BacharachThe Musical CompanionPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite...G.W.M. ReynoldsThe Mysteries of LondonPrint: Serial / periodical


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