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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'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies [n/a][books on model railways]Print: Book
1900-1945'I spent the morning in the Public Library and am reading some lovely books. I read all afternoon and tried to think up games for our next Xmas party. It's as well to b...Hilary Spalding [books on party games]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][books on plants]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser [unknown][books on politics]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'.Harriet Martineau unknown[Books on rhetoric]Print: Book
1700-1799'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar [end italics], and [italics] Brutus [end italics] f...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][books on Roman History]Print: Book, Pamphlet
1800-1849'Let me remember, that though I now see, in all the prophets, the most valuable testimony to the truth of the Christian faith, a few years only have elapsed since I consi...Elizabeth Hamilton [books on the prophecies]Print: Book
1600-1699'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lately what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books on timber measuring and tides]Print: Book
1900-1945'After reading these books, I began to ask: "Why should these young men have the war to themselves? Didn't women have their war as well?"Vera Brittain [books on war topics]Print: Book
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my life is monotonous, and yet desultory. I take up boo...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometimes to read one book and sometimes another, a few pag...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned over and over half a score books for the passage in qu...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1800-1849"Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read, read, read! I used to read at all possible times, ...Gerald Massey [books]Print: Book
1800-1849"Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read, read, read! I used to read at all possible times, ...Gerald Massey [books]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read all afternoon and evening, to parent's [sic] disgust but my delight. Pub. Lib. books.'Hilary Spalding [books]Print: Book
1900-1945'That I don't like refugees in fiction is perhaps easy to understand, but I don't even like the war and today's conditions ("Murder in the Home Guard" and similar titles)... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also read the book reviews in "John O' London's". Quite of... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1600-1699'But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.'Thomas Tryon [unknown][books]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: "I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it I must lay it aside till the summer. I have howeve...Henry James Henry James Sr[book]Print: Book


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