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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'Saturday 26th June ?At the Sign of the Black Moon? ? (Wyndham-Lewis)'.Gerald Moore Percy Wyndham LewisAt the Sign of the Black MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Arethusa" to Dick and Babs, then they went to a party at the Hales.'Verena Pennefather Percy Bysse ShelleyArethusaPrint: Book
1900-1945'We went to Walton and then to Cullens to get "tuck" for Dick. After lunch packed Dick's box. Then read "Arethusa". Babs coughed nearly all night until I gave him a...Verena Pennefather Percy Bysse ShelleyArethusaPrint: Book
1900-1945'After lunch we sat in the garden & I cut out shorts for Babs, & read "Arethusa" to the boys for a bit.'Verena Pennefather Percy Bysse ShelleyArethusaPrint: Book
1800-1849Read some passages from Shelley?s Revolt of Islam before I was up. He is a great poet; but we acknowledge him to be a great poet as we acknowledge Spenser to be so, & do...Elizabeth Barrett Percy Bysshe ShelleyRevolt of IslamPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor...Richard Pyke Percy Bysshe Shelley[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Ch...Thomas Frost Percy Bysshe Shelley[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shell...V.W. Garratt Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir Percy Bysshe Shelley'Ode to the West Wind'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neit...Percy Wall Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen MabPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1850-1899
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 SocietyPercy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe CenciUnknown
1850-1899'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... S...Rose Macaulay Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t...Elizabeth Blackburn Percy Bysshe ShelleyOde to the West WindPrint: Book
1900-1945'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown, poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel...William Robertson Nicoll Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book


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