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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'There was a very full attendance & a lively discussion of the Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deterioration was discussed in many of its bearings, introduced...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[Paper responding to Departmental Committee's Repo...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'She finished reading to me the rest of the papers and correspondence, which at present occupy so much of her thoughts'Princess Caroline Princess of Wales [papers and correspondence]Manuscript: Personal papers relating to her marriage, banishment, her supposed adultery and that of her husband, etc.
1850-1899'Mrs Sydney Smith is affectionate and kind as it is possible to be. She gives me all her husband's papers and correspondence to look over and read...'Fanny Allen Sydney Smith[papers and correspondence]
1700-1799'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those papers, which have been since transferred to me. Sir ...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[papers left at his death]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'After praier I reed ouer certaine papers of instruction [which] I had receiued from Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby Richard Rhodes?[papers of instruction]Unknown
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the same thing foreshadowed in various other things on Fac...Mary Augusta Ward [papers on Factory Law]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'Up and by water with Mr Tooker (to Woolwich first, to do several businesses of the King's); and then on board Captain Fisher's ship, which we hire to carry goods to Tang...Samuel Pepys [Captain] [Fisher?][papers]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Got on in the evening the best way that I could, amusing myself for an hour or more in looking up some old papers & reading through printed papers that I had published f...John Buckley Castieau John Buckley Castieau[papers]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but it is a foolish Act and will do no great matter'Samuel Pepys [unknown][parliamentary bill]Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated sn...Howard R. Smith Henry Marriage Wallis[parody of 'We are Seven']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House, LP. 21.10.36
    E. B. Castle in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]
<...		Kenneth F. Nicholson Kenneth F. Nicholson[part of a paper on G. K. Chesterton]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser ...Samuel Richardson David Hartley[passages from] Observations on Man, his frame, hi...Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr [James Chesterton] Bradley always found great pleasure in recalling the fact that he was the prototype of Mr Sweeting [in Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley], although ...James Chesterton Bradley and fellow curatesunknown unknown[Patristic writings]Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars and [italics] cellae [end italics], their priests' s...Mary Augusta Ward [Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians]Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted (except for a pianoforte solo & a pianola performance) to a dramatic rendering of the Penn & Mead trial the cast being as under. Lor...Members of XII Reading Group [Penn and Mead trial]Print: Unknown
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen...William Edwin Adams [n/a][penny bloods]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate [penny dreadfuls about Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bil...Print: Book
1850-1899Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls: "Bill couldn't read a bit, but he...Charley anon[penny dreadfuls]Print: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful
1850-1899'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy") and he found similar thrills in the Bible, at leas...John Paton [penny dreadfuls]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w...Frederick Willis [penny dreadfuls]Print: Book


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