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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
 
1850-1899Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember that 'in 1886, when her 10-year-old son was grappling with the classics, she "began seriously to read Greek."'Mrs Humphrey Ward unknown[Greek text/s]Print: Book
1800-1849' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore of it as in learning another language although it b...Mary Shelley [unknown][Greek texts]Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are ent...Samuel Johnson [Greek tragedies]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknown[Greek]Unknown
1800-1849'read some Greek'John Ruskin [unknown][Greek]Print: Book
1900-1945'I rode to Montbard...and thence here, which is a tiny village about 15 miles from Vezelay "the grandest Norman church in Europe" (or outside it I presume) the guide-...Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon][guide book]Print: Book
1900-1945'Bennett needed a guide when he travelled abroad - and his Florentine Journal is touchingly full of his delightful efforts to see and understand all, through his Baedeker...Arnold Bennett Karl Baedeker[guidebook on Florence]Print: Book
1900-1945'I was very soon interrupted by a sergeant of the Royal Fusiliers, who brought me a message ... from their C.O. to ours. He stumbled over the pillow (the baggage end of m...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [Hand-written communique]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch newspaper, and afterwards saw handbills, which induced m...Benjamin Murray [n/a][handbill]Print: Handbill
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:

'I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[Haworth working man's written response to reading...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'At Wormwood Scrubs I lent a work on Henry VIII to a jewel thief. When he returned it, he remarked that he had enjoyed it very much and, if I had another similar book, he... [unknown][Henry VIII]Print: Book
1800-1849?Mrs Opie?s was essentially a happy temperament and with such adaptability as she possessed, quiet home evenings were not without their charms; even when her husband sat ...Amelia Opie Amelia Opie[her own works]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker [highwayman stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with great spirit... little rain sent us into the house, and ...George Eliot (pseud) [a french artist] [his own poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an histo...Frederick J. Edminson Goldwin Smith[historical works]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read several chapters of Miss Berry's work, a Comparative View of the English and French Nations, since the time of Charles II to the present day. I think this work a ...Charlotte Bury Mary Berry[historical work]Print: Book
1800-1849 'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued epistle of my friend. Doubtless you are disposed to...Thomas Carlyle various[histories]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.George Darwin William Shakespeare[Histories]Print: Book
1900-1945'Spender [J.A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette] has recently introduced me to Thucydides & I think he is the greatest of all historians. Indeed I need say no ...Arnold Bennett Thucydides[Histories]Print: Book
1850-1899'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to...John Johnson [history and philosophy]Print: Unknown


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