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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
 
1800-1849'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after...Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucian[satirical / philosophical dialogues]Print: Book
1850-1899'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine pr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Mahoney[Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart'...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek n/a[scandalous news stories in local press]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Inspired by the novels of Baroness Orczy about the Scarlet Pimpernel, I wrote a piece about Robespierre. O Robespierre, thou sea-green immobile, Thy soul, deep-stain...Charles Causley Emma Orczy[Scarlet Pimpernel novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete page of scholastic divinity, which must have been bet...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][scholastic divinity essays]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [unknown][school books]Print: Book
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite...Edwin Muir [n/a][School history book]Print: Book
1900-1945'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ...Walter Citrine [unknown][school stories from The Captain]Print: Book
1900-1945'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and slang. Pritchett's father eventually found them, burn...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Frank Richards[school stories in the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a cupboard. "What a joy to share my bed with Tom Merry ...Amy Gomm Frank Richards[school stories in the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a...Hymie Fagan Frank Richards[school stories in The Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre...Harry Burton Frank Richards[School Stories in the Magnet and the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and slang. Pritchett's father eventually found them, burn...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Frank Richards[school stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a cupboard. "What a joy to share my bed with Tom Merry ...Amy Gomm Frank Richards[school stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o...Frank Richards[school stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a...Hymie Fagan Frank Richards[school stories in The Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Angela Brazil inspired Kathleen Betterton (whose father operated a lift in the London Underground) to ascend the scholarship ladder to Christ's Hospital in Hertford and ...Kathleen Betterton Angela Brazil[school stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a...Hymie Fagan Talbot Baines Reed[school stories]Print: Book
1900-1945[Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre...Harry Burton Talbot Baines Reed[School Stories]Print: Book
1850-1899Schoolroom for boy prisoners at Tothill Fields: 'At the other end of the room the lads were making even greater havoc with the words; and though the lesson consisted of ...boys in prison [n/a][school textbook]Print: Book


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