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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'... the Alliance of Honour existed to support my trend of thought and from my early teens to claim me as an ardent worker and propagandist for the cause of personal puri...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknown[publications of the Alliance of Honour]Print: Book, Pamphlet
1850-1899Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Charlotte Bronte, 25 April 1850:

'Yesterday, I went along the shore past two wharves and several warehouses on a st. where I ...		Mary Taylor [Publisher's circular from Smith and Elder]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Aucterderran, Fife: In common with the rest of Scotland, the vulgar are, for their station, literate, beyond all other nations. Puritanic and abstruse divinity come in f...the people of Auchterderran, Fife [Puritanic and abstruse divinity texts]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Dorothea Taylor [Quennells]
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was sent out first thing in the morning for a number of racing newspapers, over which my father pored while having his breakfast. Then he carefully wrote down the name...Thomas Garratt [racing newspapers] Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'With her shiny black apron she cleaned her Woolworth's spectacles, thick lenses in metal frames with wire side pieces, and read the letter, screwing up her eyes'.Rachel [unknown][Ralph Glasser's acceptance letter from Oxford Uni...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under ...George Burrow [reading about the Garden of Eden]Print: Book
1700-1799'He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. He told me she could read the black letter, and asked him...Samuel Johnson [reading lessons]Print: Book
1600-1699'But all this while, altho' now about Thirteen Years Old, I could not read; then thinking of the vast usefulness of reading, I bought me a Primer, and got now one, then a...Thomas Tryon [unknown][reading primer]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Rosamund Wallis [readings from ballads]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening then became a 'Comic One'. The chief contribution was a paper by H.M. Wallis on 'the Comic' as reflected in the works of the writers of last century. Reading...Members of XII Book Club [readings to illustrate the theme of the Comic]Print: Book
1800-1849'The Wordsworths were reading the Morning Chronicle during the 1800s. It was the source of ... the recipe for croup medicine ... entered in the Commonplace Book.'Wordsworth Family anon[Recipe for croup medicine]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'This cabbage we have eaten every day since we left Cape Horn, and have now good store remaining; as good, to our palates at least, and fully as green and pleasing to the...Joseph Banks [uknown-ship's cook?][recipe]Manuscript: Sheet, Hand written recipe.
1850-1899'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.'George Eliot [pseud] Merritt (Mrs)[recollections of her husband]Unknown
1600-1699'But by this discourse he was pleased to show me and read to me his account, which he hath kept by him under his own hand, of all his discourse and the King's answers to ...Sir William Coventry Sir William Coventry[record of discourse upon business of Lord Clarend...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'.the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [religious books]Print: Book
1700-1799?during this winter I practised rather more than I had done before for the last two years for my master used to Read himself and make all as Could in the family on a Saba...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
1800-1849'... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he lent me some of his books and told me many straing thi...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock [unknown][religious magazines]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes
1800-1849'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pl...Christopher Thomson [unknown][religious magazines]Print: Serial / periodical


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