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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
 
1850-1899'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,...John Paton John Richard Green[history]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][history]Print: Book
1900-1945'In the November before, he had said to himself as he sat reading history, "I am 46. On the decline. why fill my head with knowledge?"'Arnold Bennett [history]Unknown
1850-1899'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most o...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][history]Print: Book
1700-1799'Thus, dear sister, I have given you a very particular, and (I am afraid you'll think) a tedious account, of this part of my travels. It was not an affectation of shewing...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknown[history]Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards [unknown][history]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the next week: that his respect for my little observati...Samuel Johnson Charles-Jean-François Henault[history]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr Jackson - a quondam Chymist, well known for his Projects to destroy the Worm which perforates the Bottoms of Ships - and Husband to the Woman mentioned on Page 58. ha...Humphrey Jackson [history]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.'John Ruskin [unknown][history]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read of Empress Theodora'John Ruskin [unknown][history]Print: Book
1850-1899'read economy of 12th century'John Ruskin [unknown][history]Print: Book
1900-1945'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p...Ethel Mannin [unknown][home medical books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read them every Sunday, many a time it's been true, but they don't give you so much bad news. When it was my birthday they said I should get a surprise. I got one. It ... [unknown][horoscopes]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place David Hume[Hume's Essays]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 31st January, Discussion group ? Readings from Humorous Poetry. A rubber of whist.' Gerald Moore unknown[humorous poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

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H. B. Lawson H. B. Lawson[Humour]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'Betty Shaw [Wesley?][hymn book]Print: Book
1850-1899'Gruppe read us a translation of one of the Homeric Hymns - Aphrodite - which is really beautiful. It is a sort of Gegenstuck to "Der Gott und die Bayadere". He has struc...[Professor] Gruppe Homer[hymn to Aphrodite]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants.....Amelia Roberts [unknown][hymn-book]Print: Book
1800-1849'April 20 1828 / on Betty Shaw wife of Benj. Shaw / ... this washer favourite verse Who suffer with our master here We shall before his face appear And by his side sit do...Betty Shaw Charles Wesley[Hymn] Come on my Partners in DistressPrint: Book


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