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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
 
1850-1899At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o...Elizabeth Bryson Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o...Elizabeth Bryson Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero-worshipPrint: Book
1850-1899At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o...Elizabeth Bryson Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Labour Party pioneer F.W. Jowett..., reading Heroes and Hero-Worship as a young millworker, was attracted by its vision of a new society but repelled by its authoritaria...F.W. Jowett Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero WorshipPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Thomas CarlyleThe Life of John SterlingPrint: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe...Emrys Daniel Hughes Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established custom [in 1880s-90s] ... by a very early age, Roy had l...James Elroy Flecker Thomas CarlyleunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899"Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to...Edmund Gosse Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
1850-1899?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but nonsense of a genius & not without a certain point. ...Leslie Stephen Thomas CarlyleShooting NiagaraPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"4/2/1845 - I am also reading Carlyle's History of the French Revolution - full of genius, pathos, and pictures; with all its faults (and it has great ones) still, I can ...Amelia Opie Thomas CarlyleHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
1850-1899"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds...Emmeline Pankhurst Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
1900-1945'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise...Patrick McGill Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 6 December 1886: "I ought long ago to have thanked you for your very substantial present of Carlyle ... I read the two volumes with e...Henry James Thomas CarlyleThe Early Letters of CarlylePrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History...George Eliot and G.H. LewesThomas CarlyleCromwellPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas CarlyleFrederick the GreatPrint: Book


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