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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[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 Emily Bronte[unknown]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 Anne Bronte[Unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[compiling the anthology "The Female Reader", Mary Wollstonecraft spent] 'long hours reading, for the extracts included came from widely scattered sources and might consi...Mary Wollstonecraft [various] [various works]Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Crabbe relates how he had fallen in love with Charlotte Williams and written her various letters, before she revealed she loved another] 'there was all this Time a Frien...Charlotte Ridout George Crabbe[letters from Crabbe to Charlotte Ridout's friend ...Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899
1900-1945		[D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday'D.R. Davies Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of England from the Accession of James...Print: Book
1700-1799[Describing a very ugly woman] 'I think I must for the rest refer my Reader to the Lady's Dressing Room, for [italics] In such a Case few Words are best, and Strepho...Laetitia Pilkington Jonathan SwiftLady's Dressing-Room, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849[description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'] 'This accomplished, my next duties were to s...James Glass Bertram [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[difficulty of uneducated readers grasping the idea that there could be two versions of a story]. 'Therefore [Thomas Carter]... not only read Revelations literally: he as...Thomas Carter The Bible - Revelation, Kings, Chronicles, GospelsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson (letter undated):] 'Just as I was sending this to the post, your fifth volume came to my hand [...] I...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Samuel RichardsonClarissa (volume 5)Print: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson, 11 January [1748/9], on completing reading of final three volumes of Clarissa:] 'I have, Sir, with m...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Samuel RichardsonClarissa (final 3 volumes)Print: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, 29 October 1749, in discussion of her view that his characters Anna Howe and Clarissa Harlowe would have been made happy b...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh The Spectator No. 476Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, 29 October 1749:] 'O Sir! how I regret your want of time! As I lately read the twentieth chapter of Seneca's Morals, I ...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Seneca Morals ('twentieth chapter')Print: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, in undated letter:] 'I have lately very often put the question to myself, whether I would chuse to live my time over ag...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh 'The wise son of Sirach'Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, on reading 'confessions,' 16 December 1749:] 'I have read many of them over, and have been so puzzled, that I knew not ...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh "Confessions"Print: Unknown
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] 'Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse ...Joseph Keating George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Tobias Smollett Print: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Oliver Goldsmith Print: Book
1800-1849[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Richard Brinsley Sheridan Print: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating John Keats Print: Book


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