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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
1900-1945		'"I owe more to Scott than to any other writer," [William] Robertson Nicoll stated. "Every year even in the busiest times I have read over his best stories."'William Robertson Nicoll Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.'William Robertson Nicoll Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all of Scott, who influenced his own first writings.'Hugh Walpole Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart of Midlothian and actually wept, at my age too, over ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherine Christian (1941).'Hugh Walpole Walter ScottKatherine ChristianPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ...John Buchan Walter ScottWaverley Novels (12)Print: Book
1900-1945'In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Story of the World -- Scott's "Wandering Willie's Tale"....George Saintsbury Walter ScottWandering Willie's Tale (in Redgauntlet)Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'... [Walter Scott's] books captivated ... [Andrew Lang] as a boy and 'grow better on every fresh reading."'Andrew Lang Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo...Alice Thompson Walter ScottnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, T...questionaire respondent Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up a book, the "Fortunes of Nigel" and read on and on t...Margaret Oliphant Walter ScottFortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor."John Ruskin Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one watches everything he does. I have read over and o...Margaret Oliphant Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece...Amelia Opie Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book


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