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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'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson John Keats[unknown works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson Geoffery Chaucer[unknown works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson Richard Brinsley Sheridan[unknown works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson Charles Lamb[unknown works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last me...		[boys at Leighton Park School] Charles Dickens[unknown works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Ludovico Antonio Muratori[unknown, on the Confraternita]Print: Book
1900-1945'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown, poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown, poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...John Keats[unknown, poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...David Herbert Lawrence[unknown, poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'Yesterday evening I had a little choice time by myself. I read and was still in my heart.'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, possibly Bible]Print: Book
1800-1849'After reading a little, I went some way off to see a poor woman'Elizabeth Fry [n/a][unknown, possibly Bible]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Prud'homme aloud to us'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Louis-Marie Prudhomme[unknown, possibly one of his French revolutionary...Print: Book
1700-1799'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I wrote and read a little before breakfast'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'went to Meeting - had a more comfortable reading with my boys than this day [last] week'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I had a satisfactory reading with my little boys more so than I almost remember'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its God. After dinner I taught Danny to read and did a ...John Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book


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