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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
 
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies [n/a][local and sports papers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw today in the paper that Philip's Norton was given to Mr Warner'.Benjamin Newton n/a[Local newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very little inclination to unpack or dress myself, but seei...John Marsh [n/a][local newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849‘I know very few people in Leeds. ... The walls of course now plastered with Election puffs and squibs, the newspapers rancorous against one another, but, as far as I c...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][Local posters and newspapers in Leeds related to ...Print: Poster
1900-1945'Read evening papers. Germans defeated with great loss. Belgians splendid both in tactics and bravery. To rest at 9.15 with hot bottle.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook [London evening newspapers]Print: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'We were in London at a quarter to 2. The evening paper contained a short communiqué saying we had attacked this morning around Albert. Apparently it is not on a very wid...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [London evening newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'This evening, after dusk, as I sat at my window, looking drearily out on the darkening waters, something was thrown from the door of my cell, and lighted at my feet. Pic...John Mitchel [n/a][London newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburt...Samuel Johnson [unknown][Lowth-Warburton controversy]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburt...George III of England [unknown][Lowth-Warburton controversy]Print: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807....William Wordsworth Willam Blake[lyrics]Print: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807....Mary Wordsworth Willam Blake[lyrics]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects o...Celia Burrow William Blake[lyrics]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 [magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 27 January, 1802: 'When we returned from Frank [Baty]'s, Wm. wasted his mind in the Magazines.'William Wordsworth [magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran...William Gifford [unknown][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I don't read books at all, chiefly magazines that I can pick up and put down without losing the thread of the story ...' [n/a][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Three hours magazines, - scientific and travel' [n/a][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read a lot of magazines ... They're bright and easy reading, and you can find out lots of useful things in them.' [n/a][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening spent a very pleasant hour in the Reading Room of the Mechanics looking over the Magazines that arrived by the "Blue Jacket".'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton [magazine]Print: Serial / periodical


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