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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'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a world I never expected to join". As an adult he appreci...Bryan Forbes Frank Richards[stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school exp...Louis Battye Frank Richards[stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...Mark Tellar Mary Braddon[stories]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'About this time I also gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeals, and fruit, and was moreover a dealer in little books...I had even then a taste f...Thomas Carter [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'George Eliot [pseud.] Francesco Sachetti[stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I in...Polly Castieau [n/a][stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual underlining.'Joseph Conrad Guy de Maupassant[Stories] Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from the Merchant of Venice when Mr Henry Smith of the A...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read some stories to the youngsters, about the only good thing I did to-day.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac issues by "The Orkney Herald". It was an account of th...Edwin Muir [unknown][story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Isl...Print: Serial / periodical, almanac
1800-1849Statement about juvenile offender: "attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school three years (same time). Learned to read and write. Ca...J.S. [story books]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea I read some story books that Mrs Parkin had kindly sent over for the amusement of baby'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][story books]Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nig...George Eliot [pseud.] Giovanni Boccaccio[story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron]Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary writes to Alexander Blackwood, asking if he might be inclined to accept for "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" a tale by a Captain Abbott] 'The tale is long & would b...Mary Shelley James Abbott[story of India]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen [unknown][Story of Perseus]Print: Book
1700-1799'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ...Samuel Bamford [Story of St George and the Dragon]Print: Book
1850-1899'Why don't you ask Miss (Maggie) Elliott to write you a novel? 6 Grosvenor Crescent - daughter of the Dean of Bristol - author of "Jem" (something) - the Dale Boy, in the...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Maggie Elliott[story with title like 'Jem']Print: Serial / periodical


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