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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 26 January, 1802: 'A dull morning. I have employed myself in writing this journal and reading newspapers till now (1/2 past...Dorothy Wordsworth [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849I see Lord Liverpool has been taken very ill, some of the farmers were so devoted as to say that providence has interfered so far as to put a stop to any alteration to th...Robert Sharp [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Account in paper of persons sent to tower for high treason.'Benjamin Newton n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read the report of the secret committee setting forth the treasonable attempts to overthrow the government and divide all the property.'Benjamin Newton n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'After having read the accounts of the trial of the Glasgow Moters as managed by the Lord Advocate [...] I think a more disgraceful satin was never affixed to the charact...Benjamin Newton n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I came across the news of the death of Bradshaw in the papers just now.'Sir Walter Raleigh n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...William Richard Grahame n/a[Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'This afternoon very bad with tooth-ache. Read the newspaper wherein I find the nation is all in a ferment upon the account of losing dear Minorca.' Thomas Turner [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Arnold, later Ward, to her mother] I have indeed seen the paragraphs about Papa. The L's showed them me on Saturday. You can imagine the exc...Mary Augusta Ward [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, the melancholic details of which we read in the next m...John Marsh [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'I had, indeed been extremely anxious to hear of poor Pacchierotti, for the account of his Illness in the newspapers had alarmed me very much.'Frances Burney [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when reading, farther from my eyes & finding some difficult...John Marsh [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'George Eliot [pseud] [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849?I read in the newspaper the day before yesterday an account of a lad brought up for not supporting his child. The father was fifteen or sixteen years old, the mother a...Charles Greville [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Dr. Walcot went into the shop of Mr Wright, where Mr. Giffard was seated reading a newspaper; he asked him if his name was not Giffard? He replied in the affirmative. Up...Mr Giffard [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Very few people appeared to be out, in fact it seemed like Sunday in the High Road, I called in a snack bar, ordered a cup of tea and a packet of cigarettes, I was the o... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'A man is playing the piano briskly; on music stand is a newspaper, open at the sports page, which he is reading. A hunchback, brown suit, bow tie, sings songs about lo... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Tries to read sports page, but ends up reading news. One girl does bad piece of work in mill. Immense black-out purchasing in town.' [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'While an old working-class lady of 68 in Worktown, reading a newspaper, summed up her opinion of the war as follows.' [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all'Lady Caroline Lamb [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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