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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
 
1850-1899'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo...William Henry Davies unknown [Penny Dreadfuls]Print: Book
1900-1945'I suffered very much in that shop through all the summer months. At that time we went to live at Malmaison and it was heartrending to think of George and Alfred [reader...Arthur Vanson unknown[penny dreadfuls]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to his work as a dialect poet: "I must confess that my...Ben Brierley [penny fairy stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to his work as a dialect poet: "I must confess that my...Ben Brierley [penny horror stories]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a poet myself...'Joseph Stamper [n/a][Penny Poets]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'.George Eliot [pseud] Henry Hallam[perhaps The View of the State of Europe during th...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur'George Eliot [pseud] Johannes Scherr[perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur?Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Re-read "Laws of Operation".'George Eliot [pseud] Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps)[perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the System...Print: Unknown
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][periodical]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and ...John Mitchel Frazer (ed.)[Persia]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr M- along. I lay back and listened to all his plans for the regeneration of Scotland - including the one in which he is to be editor of a terrifically high-brow and in...William Soutar M[personal writings]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed through the workhouse; read the pestilent literature of ...anon [unknown][pestilent literature of rascaldom]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1600-1699'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bit...Samuel Pepys Fields[petition]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bit...Sir William Penn Fields[petition]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private business of my office stopped to attend this - but m...Samuel Pepys [unknown][petty-warrants]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[philology books]Print: Book
1850-1899'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow ...Allen Clark [unknown][physiology textbooks]Print: Book
1900-1945'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday ...Charles B.M. Warren unknown[Physiology textbook]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and examined a piece of Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Will Hewer[piece of Latin, practice translation probably]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories w...children and mothersAmy Le Feuvre[pious fiction]Print: Book


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