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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
 
1800-1849It was Lilly's Latin Grammar. It called for uncommon perseverance to come at its contents, so much had it suffered from the use and abuse of schools... But I was desperat...Anne Lutton William LillyLilly's Latin GrammarPrint: Book
1700-1799It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holidays, these were Thursdays and Saturdays. On these occ...Francis Place  Print: Book
1700-1799It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holidays, these were Thursdays and Saturdays. On these occ...Older boys from the school of Francis Place  Print: Book
1850-1899It would not be very easy for me to give you any idea of the pleasure I found in your present….I can assure you, your little book, coming from so far, gave me all the ple...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett MartinSweet Girl Graduate: A Christmas Story and Random ...Print: Book
1900-1945I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astonishing skill and verve, but too diffuse by far in its movem...Arnold Bennett Robert NicholsGolgotha & Co. Print: Book
1900-1945I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astonishing skill and verve, but too diffuse by far in its movem...Arnold Bennett Aldous HuxleyOn the MarginPrint: Book
1900-1945I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in technique. . . . I’m now reading Stendhal’s 'Promenades dans Ro...Arnold Bennett Maurice BaringCat's CradlePrint: Book
1900-1945I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in technique. . . . I’m now reading Stendhal’s 'Promenades dans Ro...Arnold Bennett StendhalPromenades dans RomePrint: Book
1700-1799J. Channing to Samuel Richardson, 31 October 1748: 'I returned your papers on Saturday, with sincere thanks, myself very truly affected with them. I had attended the l...J. Channing Samuel RichardsonClarissaUnknown
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751: 'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; but his brother is, who is [...] very ingenious, and e...J. Duncombe and others in Cambridge GrahamepigramUnknown
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751: 'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; but his brother is, who is [...] very ingenious, and e...Samuel Richardson'writings'Print: Book
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 17 November 1751: 'I have been reading lately, with great satisfaction, the Letters of Lord Orrery on D...J. Duncombe Lord OrreryLetters on SwiftPrint: Book
1800-1849J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the cleverest that was written since Austen and Edgewor...John Gibson Lockhart Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing Diary entry, Aug 15 1869: 'Tracts for the Times'Juliana Horatia Ewing Rowland Elliott [?]Tracts for the TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing diary entry: 'Last Chronicle of Barset'Juliana Horatia Ewing Anthony TrollopeLast Chronicle of BarsetPrint: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing's diary entry, April 10 1869: 'Goulburn's Study of the Holy Scriptures'Juliana Horatia Ewing Edward Meyrick GoulburnAn Introduction to the Devotional Study of the Hol...Print: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'Boy read me Kingslake's account of the conflict [...] of the 2nd of Dec. Horribly interesting.' Alexander (Rex) Ewing Kingslake[unknown]Print: Book
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1850-1899		J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c.1868) read the merchandise [mainly popular song and...Seamus MacManus popular chapbooksPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		J. R. R. Adams quotes at length from William Carleton's account (in his autobiography) of first reading Amoranda, or the reformed coquette, when young, "'the first thing ...William Carleton Amoranda, or the reformed coquettePrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899J.H. Ewing diary entry, Aug. 25 1869: 'Read Drew'Juliana Horatia Ewing Drew[unknown]Unknown


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