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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799	My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall when the owner became offended at my standing readin...	Francis Place		various	Print: Book
		My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...	Anne Lutton	John Adams	The History of Rome, from the Foundation of the Ci	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...	Anne Lutton	William Robertson	The History of America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...	Anne Lutton	J.J. Barthelemy	Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece,	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...	Anne Lutton	Oliver Goldsmith	The History of England from the Earliest Times...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...	Anne Lutton		The Gentleman's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...	Anne Lutton	John Wesley	Sermons on Several Occasions OR Three Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with the Georgical Essays, I have read a little of the f...	Anne Lister	Alexander Hunter	Georgical Essays	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...	Harriet Beer	D.K. Broster	The Flight of the Heron	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...	Harriet Beer	D.K. Broster	The Gleam in the North	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...	Harriet Beer	D.K. Broster	The Dark Mile	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...	Patricia Beer	D.K. Broster	The Dark Mile	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...	Patricia Beer	D.K. Broster	The Gleam in the North	Print: Book
	1900-1945	My recollection of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is a little clearer, as it was the impression of much physical activity and play, such as springing out at Sheila from dark co...	Patricia Beer	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were...	Anne Lutton	Maria Edgeworth		Print: Book
	1800-1849	My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were...	Anne Lutton		[old-school novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	My uncle has got the life of Doctor Beattie from the library [Halifax Subscription library?], I have not had time to read much of it yet, but I think he must have been ...	Samuel Lister	Alexander Bower	An Account of the Life of James Beattie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Never did any poor creature labour with morediligence than I did to obtain the most accurate knowledge of the language. I succeeded, read all the Roman classics, and fast...	Anne Lutton		['Roman Classics']	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'... one day I picked up a copy of Samuel Butler's Note Books and read the followi...	Neville Cardus	Samuel Butler	Note Books	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'I came upon the works of J. M. Robertson, also once a poor boy who had made himse...	Neville Cardus	J. M. Robertson	unknown	Print: Book

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