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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'I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an advertisement enclosed with the letter]. I don't kno...Ford Madox Ford [n/a][newspaper classifieds]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 18. They were talking and laughing excitedly. The eld... [n/a][newspaper cutting]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received a letter from Emma and some papers from Joe. In Emma's letter there was an Extraordinary published by one of the Melbourne papers which contained the news of t...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspaper cutting]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an e...Anne Romilly [newspaper extract of Preface to "Glenarvon"]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Alexander Macneill [newspaper from Charlottetown]Print: Newspaper, Daily
1900-1945'[in America] on the very few occasions when Mrs Ward did consent to be interviewed, she insisted on seeing the proof and entirely re-writing what had been put into her m...Mary Augusta Ward [newspaper interviews with herself]Print: Unknown, newspaper proofs
1900-1945'Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly concealed in what they saw. Enough filtered through.'Ralph Glasser [n/a][newspaper reports on Russia]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Eliza talks of having read in a Newspaper that all the 1st Lieut:s of the Frigates whose Captains were to be sent into Line-of-Battle ships, were to be promoted to the r...Eliza de Feuillide [newspaper reports]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I was absolutely horrified about the Italians, the way they took revenge on Mussolini. I can't imagine what we're fighting for, if that's the way the Anti-Fascists behav... [n/a][Newspaper: Article on Mussolini's death]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'On one of the side streets, a young couple parked their perambulator in the middle of the sidewalk and stopped to read the results of the Coronation procession in London...a young couple [n/a][newspaper?]Print: Unknown, perhaps front page of newspaper displayed?
1900-1945'Never thought much about it, took it for granted. One thing it's done is make people's nerves on edge all the time, wars and all that, get sick of it. . . . Pictures you... [unknown][newspaper?]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for ther...George Crabbe [n/a][newspapers at time of Reform debate]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'An account in the papers of Mrs W. Long being married to Rich the Rope dancer, old Billy Long was a fine contrast to him.'Benjamin Newton n/a[newspapers?]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'They likewise read, occasionally, a variety of other books unconnected with such subjects [religion]... Although the parish consists wholly of the poorer ranks of societ...the people of Auchterderran, Fife [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
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 [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'Wigtown:...Not only the farmers ,but many of the tradesmen, read the newspapers'the people of Wigtown [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The political awakening of J.R. Clynes came when three old blind men paid him 3d a week to read the newspapers to them: "Reading aloud was a new joy to me. Some of the ...J.R. Clynes [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I should say in justice to myself that I am absolutely unmoved, except by impatience, at the daily twitterings of the leader writers in the press, I read them, Garvin an... [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I hope the execrable Murderer will prove to have been an Irishman; the Scotch much to their honour have hitherto been little tainted by that detestable crime. I had rea...William Wordsworth [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820: 'The news from Hayti [ie Haiti, where revolution had taken place] has grieved Mr Clarkson [friend of King Henri...Thomas Clarkson [newspapers]Print: Newspaper


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