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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'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'.Mary Godwin William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening finishes it. Write Greek -- Read Smellie.' ...Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 25th. [...] Read Smellie Philosophy [o]f Natural History.' Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 26th. Read the Empire of the Nairs & Smellie.' Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to Pancrass. Read Smellie in the Evening.' ...Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to Pancrass. Read Smellie in the Evening.' ...Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie.' Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 29th. [...] Read Smellie.' Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...'Thomas Green George CampbellThe Philosophy of RhetoricPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian translation of Euripides. -- A pretty good one, I f...Catherine Talbot Euripides The Phoenician WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett Herman MelvilleThe Piazza TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one...Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899In Scaffolding in the Sky (1938), C[harles]. H. Reilly remembered Saturday evenings when 'we all assembled round the fire to hear him [his father] read Dickens, generally...Charles H. Reilly Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favour of God, it was Pickwick Papers ... At some stage i...Ernest Raymond Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my teachers -- I know I was reading Pinnock's "History of ...Andrew Lang Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: 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 Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'In future I hope that instead of saying as the fat boy in "Pickwick" does "I wants to make yer flesh creep," when I have a "liver" my letters will be particularly cheerf...Donald William Alers Hankey Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Wilson had no more patience than we had with Little Nell and the atrocious Trotty Veck. He shovelled the sentiment and the trushery behind him, and started straight o...Walter Wilson Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book


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