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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
 
1800-1849Wordsworth to Hazlitt, 5 March 1804: "I was sorry to see from the Papers that your Friend poor Fawcett was dead; not so much that he was dead but to think of the manner i...William Wordsworth [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, not political, for we have the papers up to May.'George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady of the Lake" advertised[;] of course it is in his o...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... 'George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... mauled (I see) in the newspapers ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron various[newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.'George Gordon, Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the papers and tea-ed and soda-watered ... 'George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the papers, took place on the dissolution of King and parl...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers] is in a third Edition ...'George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell's family n/a[newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'the papers announce the death of the King of Wurtemberg'.Benjamin Newton n/a[newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899?I could no longer stand the torrent of nonsense, violence and folly which the newspapers day after day poured forth, and resolved to write a letter which was published i...Charles Greville [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Talk and read the newspapers'.Percy Bysshe Shelley [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Course I know what you're talking about, I read about it all in the paper, used to read books about it, they've made a new car so's it's easier to drive, more profit for... [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Read all about it chum in the papers, they don't interest me 'cept they don't do anything like for the likes of us, they talk about what we should eat, why don't they se... [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read all the papers on it. I don't understand the politics of it, but they are all different. That's why people have less faith in the papers.' [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I've got too much to do (to read books). I read the newspapers mostly, morning and evening editions, and the midday, as I'm a racing man.' [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I spend some time reading the papers, morning and evening editions, roughly about 14 hours a week, about two hours each day ... I expect I'm too tired of an evening to s... [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.' [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper


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