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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
 
1800-1849'I read in Stafford's library the wonderful news of the allies entering into Paris'.Charlotte Bury [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewes; these were chiefly theological. The only one, tha...James Hogg [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'we know nothing of mankind, but from letters and Neswpapers, to the latter of which, in spite of my Verses & Witticisms, I have recourse for Information: sad Information...George Crabbe [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives a Man the Air of a Politician, for the same Reason ...George Rooke [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Campden Hill.'Ford Madox Ford [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in the newspapers I will not repeat anything here.'Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the newspapers said £19,000 or £29,000. Ten thousand makes ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] There has appeared lately in the papers an account of a boat overset between Mull and Ulva, in which many passengers were lost, and amo...Samuel Johnson [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'At Leicester we read in the newspapers that Dr James was dead'. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Our worthy friend Thrale's death having appeared in the newspapers, and been afterwards contradicted, I have been placed in a state of v...James Boswell [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'In the newspapers, which my sister sent out to me, I had read about the growing movement for women's suffrage.'Zoe Procter [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'We ... took possession of a chateau in the Rue d'Amiens and moved in. I visited Bastion at 9 pm and took my boots off for the first time since the 7th. Slept peacefully ...Martin Wentworth Littlewood [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849‘I have an opportunity of seeing papers enough at Mr. Withington’s, the present occupant of Allan Bank, a most worthy Englishman and Tory of Falstaffian dimensions, who...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors: "He [Sir Stafford Northcote] is a statesman, the b...Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
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 [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth: 'I read in the papers with great pain the account of Mungo Park's disastrous end ... 'William Wordsworth [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a regular scavager: "No, I can't say I was sorry when I was forced to be idle that way, that I hadn't kept up my reading, nor tried to keep it ...Bill n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen sloop of war ... The manner I knew that Capt. Hanso...George Gordon, Lord Byron anon[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, alluded to by her in letter to him] -- it is just to yo...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, [?April 1817]: 'Sir, In your Journal of 27th...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper]Print: NewspaperUnknown


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