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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a blind female seller of 'small wares', the conversation turns to her younger son: "My youngest son -he's now fourteen -is asthmatical; but he'...	anon			Print: Book, Broadsheet, Serial / periodical, penny book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...	anon	Watts		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...	anon	John Wesley		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...	anon		religious magazines	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...	anon	Clark	Lives of Pirates	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library?
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...	anon		Tales of Shipwrecks	Print: Serial / periodical, probably penny numbers
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...	anon		Family Herald	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...	anon	William Harrison Ainsworth	Windsor Castle	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...	anon	William Harrison Ainsworth	The Tower of London	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse: "I thought I should make my fortune in London -I'd heard it was such a grand place. I had read in...	anon			Print: Book, Serial / periodical, penny books
	1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse: "I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three volumes; and I used to tell stories out of that some...	anon	William Harrison Ainsworth	Jack Sheppard	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d...		John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d...				Print: Book, Serial / periodical, novels
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d...		G.W.M. Reynolds	Reynolds's Miscellany	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by t...	anon		Examiner	Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by t...	anon		Daily News	Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by t...	anon		various	Print: Book, leaves from books used to wrap food purchases
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t...	Mary	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t...	Mary			Print: Book, story books
	1800-1849	Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t...	Mary			Print: Newspaper

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