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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'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Li...James Lackington Humphrey PrideauxThe Old and New Testament connected in the history...Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'These very pretty rhymes were written in the times of Elizabeth and James!!'. Follows a transcription of 'The O... anon [Traditional]The Old and Young CourtierUnknown
1900-1945'9. Charles Stansfield then read his paper on Charles Lamb. He gave us a clear picture of Lamb in his family relationships, beginning with a delightful study of Lamb’s ...Charles E. Stansfield Charles LambThe Old Benchers of the Inner TemplePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read "The Continental Times" Bundle of drivel lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment...William Thomas Bithia M. CrokerThe Old Cantonment: With Other Stories of India an...Print: Book
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Siegfried SassoonThe Old CenturyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1850-1899"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S...Robert Blatchford Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, Th...questionaire respondent Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna...questionaire respondent Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1900-1945'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little school editions, were enough to sour a boy against the...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1850-1899'Of Dickens, dear friend, I know nothing. About a year ago, from idle curiosity, I picked up The Old Curiosity Shop, & of all the rotten vulgar un-literary writing. . .!...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourse...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1850-1899'May,June' [ditto marks under the words '-July with Winnie and Edith'].Sarah Good Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?Walpole?s Catle of Otranto, though dramatized by Jephson, has few imitations. Clara Reeve?s English Baron was the best, but even she in vain beckoned authors to cross th...Charles Robert Maturin Clara ReeveThe Old English BaronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday August 7th. [...] Read old English Baron.' Claire Clairmont Clara ReeveThe Old English Baron: A Gothic StoryPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Ballad "The old English Gentleman" sung by Mr Phillips, May 10th 1833 - at Mr Anderson's conce... anon [Traditional]The Old English GentlemanUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Amy Barlow, writing of the late 1890s, recalls how her mother seemed to have a vivid memory of her childhood reading, and would recommend enthusiastically to her daughte...Amy Barlow Elizabeth WetherellThe Old HelmetPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am going to send you "The Old Huntsman" as a festive gift … “The Death Bed” is the finest poem. I told [Sassoon] my opinion. It is his own. The poem is coming out ...Wilfred Owen Siegfried SassoonThe Old Huntsman and other PoemsPrint: Book


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