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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
 
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshelves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed ...Janet Hitchman Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman W.G. CollingwoodThe Life of RuskinPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Htitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed ...Janet Hitchman O.F. WaltonChristie's Old OrganPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman O.F. WaltonA Peep Behind the ScenesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman Hans Christian AndersonThe Little Match GirlPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'From a classroom library of perhaps two dozen volumes [Richard Hillyer] borrowed one by Tennyson, simply because it had 'Poet Laureate' printed on the title page: the co...Richard Hillyer Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'At a second-hand stall, [Richard Hillyer] bought a four volume Half Hours with Best Authors. One could dismiss it as a potted Anglocentric collection of snippets by dead...Richard Hillyer Half Hours With Best AuthorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy...Ladies' Edinburgh Debating SocietySamuel PepysunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945After breakfast the three maids were called in for prayers. Our uncle who was working his way chronologically through the Bible had got once more to Kings and intoned a c...Mr Bugg The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Home MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett G.E. FarrowThe Wallypug of WhyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Children's EncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Hereward the WakePrint: Book
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett [comics -unknown]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marriage on Two Hundred a YearPrint: Book
1900-1945Our first lessons were from Ford Madox Ford's 'English Review' which was publishing some of the best young writers of the time. We discussed Bridges and Masefield... For ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Ford Madox FordEnglish ReviewPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I do not know: we went on to Tennyson, never learning...Victor Sawdon Pritchett James Russell LowellThe Vision of Sir LaunfalPrint: Book


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