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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"Florence Spong recounted in August 1909: 'As to breaking my [prison] cell window, I told them I only followed the advice given in the book, placed in my cell, entitled '...Florence Spong A Healthy Home, and How to Keep ItPrint: Book
1900-1945"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."General Drummond Jane PorterThe Scottish ChiefsPrint: Book
1900-1945"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."General Drummond Samuel SmilesLIfe and LabourPrint: Book
1900-1945"By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Miss Broughton [had] read the lives of great women reformers like Florence Nightingale and Miss Weston ..." Lives of women reformersPrint: Book
1900-1945"By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Mrs Reonold [had been] 'especially cheered and encouraged' by reading a life of Joan of Arc."Mrs Reonold Life of Joan of ArcPrint: Book
1900-1945"Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone and ... famous speeches of famous men, she resorted ...Viscountess Rhondda Edna LyallnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945"Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence wrote of having read Shakespeare's history plays whilst in prison [as suffragette] ..."Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence William ShakespeareHistory playsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Susan M. CoolidgeWhat Katy DidPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Lucy Maud MontgomeryAnne of AvonleaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Mark TwainTom SawyerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Mark TwainHuckleberry FinnPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1900-1945'V.S. Pritchett's "popular educator" was the literary section of the Christian Science Monitor: "It was imbued with that unembarrassed seriousness about learning things w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett n/aChristian Science MonitorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Siegfried Sassoon[war poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Wilfred Owen[war poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to ArmsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Robert GravesGoodbye to All ThatPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Edmund BlundenUndertones of WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell's family n/a[newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt Thomas Carlyle Print: Book


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