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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
 
1700-1799?during this winter I practised rather more than I had done before for the last two years for my master used to Read himself and make all as Could in the family on a Saba...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
1800-1849?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ...William Edwin Adams John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ...William Edwin Adams Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ...William Edwin Adams anonArabian NightsPrint: Book
1800-1849?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature Forward not permanent ? sweet not lasting The per...Lady Caroline Lamb William ShakespeareHamletUnknown
1800-1849?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was finished we turned back to the first, and began them ove...Thomas Catling [n/a]PsalmsPrint: Book
1850-1899?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great...Thomas Burt ToddStudent's ManualPrint: Book
1850-1899?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great...Thomas Burt Channing[volume of essays eg. on Milton, Napoleon and Fene...Print: Book
1850-1899?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great...Thomas Burt [unknown][theological magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Friday. I have got on rather better with the ?Fables?; perhaps it won?t be a failure, though I still fear...Saturday...I just finished some of the deedest rubbish about ...Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Robert Bulwer-LyttonFables in SongPrint: Book
1850-1899?Goodbye. I am at "Knox and the Women", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me some trouble.?Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson[material on John Knox]Print: Book, Presumably numerous works by, and of general and specific reference to, Knox
1800-1849?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of this kind arrived when a firm of printers in London...William Edwin Adams William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1850-1899?Have you read Mat Arnold?s letters? Some, I see, are addressed to you? I can imagine old Carlyle taking himself to be a prophet, as indeed he was; but Mat Arnold, I shou...Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldLetters of Matthew Arnold: 1848-1888Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.?Maria Edgeworth Charlotte SmithMinor Morals: interspersed with sketches of Nation...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?He ingenuously seized opportunities, when his parents were away from home, to construct his private theatricals, which he did by converting folding doors into a green cu...Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel LeeThe Rival Queens, or The Death of AlexanderPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion that can distract the human heart or agitate human li...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849?Here Hayley kept his books and manuscripts and the choicest pieces of his famous collection of Chinese porcelain. The walls were adorned with prints and drawings, and he...Amelia Opie William Hayley Manuscript: Plays
1800-1849?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a man whose name was Samuel winwright a man of the oth...Joseph Mayett [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad...James Watson William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad...James Watson Thomas Jonathan WoolerBlack DwarfPrint: Serial / periodical


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