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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
 
1800-1849Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets toget...Jack Carlyle Thomas CarlyleProofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings'Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Even my little 'Oriente Moderno', the best paper on current Eastern affairs I know, is now becoming propagandist in a disguised way. The Abyssinian business makes m...Freya Stark unknownOriente ModernoPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Evidence in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods. Prisoner Brown questions witness George Picard: Q: "Do you remember that there was a newspaper on the table at...George Picard Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "I take home the 'Family Herald', and read it with a great deal of pleasure, an...Abel Heywood Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "I take home the 'Family Herald', and read it with a great deal of pleasure, an...Heywood family Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "This 'Court of London' I consider is a test of the taste of the readers genera...Abel Heywood G.W.M. ReynoldsThe Mysteries of the Court of LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Evidence of E. Fry to parliamentary Select Committee - Fry explains that she is careful in her prison readings to have a regard to the feelings of the women. For instance...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Old Testament)Print: Book
Evidence of engagement with the text: (1) occasional marginal notes; (2) marginal symbols throughout the text, crosses (ex. pp. 1,5,12), underlines (pp. 16, 520-1), score...Jo. Halkerston Conradus LagusMethodica iuris traditio, seu ratio compendiaria, ...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I find even with myself coming to London occasionally only as I do now, that I really take...William Edward Hickson Maidstone GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I find even with myself coming to London occasionally only as I do now, that I really take...William Edward Hickson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I formed in the village where I am now living, when I first went there, an evening class o...William Edward Hickson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "My experience is this: that what interested me most of all in newspaper reading, and what ...William Edward Hickson The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Evidence to Parliamentary Committee from Rev. Thomas Spencer, a Church of England clergyman: "I was appealed to in the parish of which I was incumbent for 22 years, by... anon  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Ex-Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the Falloden Papers, on how he spent his time after being deposed from the Cabinet in 1916: ' ... I spent some weeks alone in the ...Sir Edward Grey William ShakespeareplaysPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Virgil[works]Print: Unknown
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Sophocles[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Aeschylus[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Geoffrey Chaucer[unknown]Print: Unknown


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