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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
 
1800-1849Harriet 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[History books]Print: Book
1700-1799'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read of both in English and Scotch history, which I always...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][history books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814: 'the best thing of that kind I met with by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in an...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[history book]Print: Book
1850-1899'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1850-1899'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'.George Eliot [pseud.] Karl Friedrich August Kahnis[history of German Protestantism - title unclear]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "History of Music."'Virginia Woolf unknown[History of Music]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little in Thucydides.'William Windham Thucydides[History of Peloponessian War?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown][History of the French Revolution]Print: Book
1800-1849'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that...Thomas Carter [unknown][History of the recent wars]Print: Book
1800-1849'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and al...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][History of Venetian Doges]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 30 September 1797: '... this took a strange turn when I was about nine years old. I had been reading the historical plays of...Robert Southey William Shakespeare[history plays, particularly Henry VI, Parts I and...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'Percy Bysshe Shelley William Shakespeare[History Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[History plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept...Elizabeth Hamilton William Shakespeare[History Plays]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t...Flora Thompson [history reader]Print: Book
1700-1799'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'.the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [history]Print: Book
1800-1849'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read his...Charles Campbell [history]Print: Book
1800-1849'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating li...Robert Lowery [history]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Plutarch[history]Print: Book


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