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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
 
1850-1899Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing...Alice Thompson Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownUnknown
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took...George Moore Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Queen Mab' at first repelled me from the threshold of h...Edmund Gosse Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen MabPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1900-1945'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp...Wilfred Pickles Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'We think he is mistaken in every respect. His work does not teach the human heart, but insults it...His precepts are conveyed in the cries of Bedlam; and the outrage of ...John Scott Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe CenciPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th...George Howell Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite...Allen Clarke Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899"'On first reading Shelley", he writes, "I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known existed." Now it was the VERSE, not the argument, which ...John Masefield Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Revolt of IslamPrint: Book
1850-1899'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter...Maud du Puy Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History...George Eliot (pseud) Percy Bysshe Shelley[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1800-1849'Hookham calls here & Shelley reads his romance to him.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley[romance]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Shelley is very unwell - he reads one canto of Queen Mab to me.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen Mab: a philosophical poem with notesManuscript: Unknown, owned by author
1800-1849'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Zastrozzi'.Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Percy Bysshe ShelleyZastrozziPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonais: An elegy on the death of John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson Percy Bysshe Shelley[poems extracts]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Shelley's pamphlet.'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyAddress to the people on the death of the Princess...Print: Book


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