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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'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ...John Buchan Alexandre DumasValois cyclePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read to Mrs G.[isborne]'Mary Shelley Mary ShelleyValpergaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Finish C.A. to Jane'Mary Shelley Mary ShelleyValpergaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'read Mrs Robinson's Valcenza'.Mary Godwin Mary RobinsonVancenza; or the Dangers of CredulityPrint: Book
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-18991"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason for knocking down Lord Steyne.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: 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 William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, T...questionaire respondent William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'Once Laura had the honour of choosing two passages for the father of one of her friends, who had been invited to read and could not, as he said, think of anything likely...Flora Thompson William ThackeryVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Vanity FairPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I was sitting between one & two o'clock quietly enjoying a chapter in "Vanity Fair" when there was a bustling noise [?] to the Gaol. Polly looked out of the window & imm...John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading "Vanity Fair" again & found it even more enjoyable than when I read it for the first time. I really think I like the Book better even than any of tho...John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.'John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'Came home & finished "Vanity Fair" before tea-time.'John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage followed by readings from his works Charles E. Stansfiel...Elizabeth Ann Smith William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 29 March 1848:

'You mention Thackeray and the last number of "Vanity Fair." The more I re...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

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7....		Sylvanus A. Reynolds William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book


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