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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 bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book
1700-1799" began the Spectator"Lady Eleanor Butler The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in...Leslie Stephen The SpectatorPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter [n/a]The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favour of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the "Spectator" and "Tatler". His narrative of how he m...Benjamin Franklin The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Sent last night to WM a Basket... after that amused myself by reading in the Spectator the account of Sir Roger de Coverley, It really is an entertaining description of ...Robert Sharp The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In 1782 Hester Thrale read the Spectator to her daughters, who found hilariously improper the "Idea of a Lady saying her Stomach ach'd, or that something stuck between h...Hester Thrale Joseph AddisonThe spectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'This day made an end of instructing Miss Day. Read part of "The Spectator"; prodigiously admire the beauties pointed out in the eighth book of Milton's "Paradise Lost" b...Thomas Turner The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me with, yet I have not had time to read any farther th...Samuel Richardson Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Stephen Duck's habits in reading whilst working, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Stephen Duck' (1731): '"his method was to labour harder...Stephen Duck The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Mary Berry, 'Notes of Early Life': 'My dear grandmother [...] made me read the Psalms and chapters to her every morning; but, as neither explanation nor comment was made ...Mary Berry Addison and Steele (ed.)The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Ram...Elizabeth Sewell The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ...Thomas Carlyle Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Examined, with a view to those principles, Addison's Eleven Papers in the "Spectator"; beginning at No. 409, and with the omission of the 410th, ending with the 421st. ...Thomas Green Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book
1700-1799'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish'James Boswell Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Thursday July 1st. [...] Read the Spectator.'Claire Clairmont The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'By the way, I have tried to read the Spectator, which they all say I imitate, and - it's very wrong of me I know - but I can't'.Robert Louis Stevenson The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The other day some people from “The Gentlewoman” came to interview me and wished to put an account if me into their paper. I hate being public property and so refused t...Cornelia Sorabji The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849C. B. Fripp to George Grote, 26 December 1836: 'In the Spectator of this week (of which I am a regular reader), I am delighted to see it stated that you have resolve...C. B. Fripp The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical


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