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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?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met with in the middle of Grainger?s Worthies of England...Maria Edgeworth James GrangerA Biographical history of England from Egbert the ...Print: Book
1700-1799?This evening my father has been reading out Gay?s Trivia to our great entertainment. I wished very much, my dear aunt, that you and Sophy had been sitting round the fire...R.L. Edgeworth John GayTrivia: or the art of walking the streets of Londo...Print: Book
1700-1799'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympathy with her husband could not have a very extensive ...Maria Edgeworth KalidasaSakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian dramaPrint: Book
1700-1799?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?Amelia Opie Mme de Genlis Print: Book
1700-1799"Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves in the shade while John took a book from his pocket...John Pitchford Thomas GreyPerigrinus PorteousPrint: Book
1700-1799"Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves in the shade while John took a book from his pocket...John Pitchford Thomas GreyElegy written in a Country ChurchyardPrint: Book
1700-1799?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?Amelia Opie William Hayley Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia Voltaire [pseud.]ZadigPrint: Book
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
1700-1799'[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favor of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the "Spectator" and "Tatler".'Benjamin Franklin The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'John Clare CinderellaPrint: Book
1700-1799'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'John Clare Little Red Riding HoodPrint: Book
1700-1799'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'John Clare Jack and the BeanstalkPrint: Book
1700-1799Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I th...Sarah Osborn Bible passagesPrint: Book
1700-1799Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I th...Sarah Osborn Joseph AlleineAlarm for the UnconvertedPrint: Book
1700-1799Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's journey to the heavenly Canaan, by Mr. Erskine.'"Joseph Croswell Mr. Erskine[spiritual autobiography]Unknown
1700-1799Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's journey to the heavenly Canaan, by Mr. Erskine.'"Joseph Croswell Mr. Erskine Unknown
1700-1799"... [In the 1720s] William Byrd (1674-1744) of Westover, Virginia, was keeping up with the classics in his private reading."William Byrd  Print: Book
1700-1799Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aeneid".'Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther BurneyAlexander PopeWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aeneid".'Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney VirgilAeneidPrint: Book


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