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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
 
1800-1849'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being burnt down, my attention was caught by one of the v...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][advertisement]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
1900-1945'An advertisement for the Japanese film of the fall of Singapore, "On to Singapore" announces "Syonan - City of Peace, Plenty and Prosperity".'Thomas Kitching [advertisement]Print: Advertisement
1850-1899'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".'John Ruskin [n/a][advertisement]Print: Advertisement
1900-1945'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ...Percy Wall Henry Rider Haggard[African stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'On the circular table in the centre of the room was placed among other books an album, and Mr Storey being called away, I noted the following excellent morsels of litera...John Cole [unknown][album]Print: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Algebra]Print: Book
1800-1849'I told him of my having now read every play of Euripides; & he seemed very much surprised [...] and observed, that very few men had done as much'.Elizabeth Barrett Euripides[all plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Charles Darwin[all works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Sat at home in the evening mourning over my face and lazily reading the improbabilities of Allan Poe, went to bed very early.'John Buckley Castieau Edgar Allan Poe[Allan Poe]Print: Book
'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR SIR, In the year 1763, being at London, I was car...Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke[alleged MS prose version of Pope's 'Essay on Man'...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'In the day read part of several new almanacs which came down today, and I doubt but few will be sold by reason of the additional duty of one penny on the sheets, and two...Thomas Turner [almanacs]Print: Broadsheet, Pamphlet, almanac
1700-1799West Indian Islands Islands len Brd chief towns Belonging to _______________________________________________________...Mary Bacon unknown[Almanac]Print: Unknown, set out in a table
1700-1799[Transcribed in Mary Bacon's commonplace book/ledger: ?Mars is situated next above the Earth his course being between the orbit of Jupiter and that of the Earth but v...Mary Bacon unknown[almanac]Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Darling of the Muses'] 'Mr Worsdale shewed this Ballad ...Laetitia Pilkington Matthew Pilkington[alteration to her poem on 'Stella']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and...Laetitia Pilkington Colley Cibber[alterations to her poem 'To Mr Cibber']Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Yes! I found the American cookery books here when we got home, (Decr 20th) and many many thanks. we can't understand all the words used - because, you see, [italics] we ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][American cookery books]Print: Book
1850-1899'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history: "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ranked seco...Harry Lauder [unknown][American History]Print: Book
'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...'Walter Besant [unknown][American literature]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 186...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][American newspaper extracts]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House
3/12/29
T. C. Elliott in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved
[...]
5. The subject of the...		Howard Smith Clarkson Wallis[An account of a ghost appearing at the Brighton M...Manuscript: NotebookUnknown


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