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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
 
1850-1899[I have seen] 'Your "Art and Criticism", likewise there'. Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin'Art and Criticism' in Appleton's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, and that's nearly 30 years now.'Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945[I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, and that's nearly 30 years now.'Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945[I read] 'Oh, anything political - I'm mad about politics -you know, India today and all that sort of thing and all those red books that aren't allowed, I get all those.....H. RathboneWhat Next in GermanyPrint: Book
1800-1849[illustration of a Deer, followed by prose on hunting ascribed to] 'Library of Entertaining Knowledge' [part of album with begining of transcript missing].E.E.R. Library of Entertaining KnowledgeUnknown
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Frederick MarryatMasterman Ready, or the Wreck in the PacificPrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton [unknown][account of Bounty mutiny]Print: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Arthur Conan DoyleSir NigelPrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Richard Doddridge BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1700-1799[in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of sufficient value to transcribe extracts for her children...Anna Larpent William SmelliePhilosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945[In bed recovering from gastro-enteritis] 'I read "Crowthers" all day, and loved it.'Hilary Spalding Thomas ArmstrongCrowthers of BankdamPrint: Book
1700-1799[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] From Samuel Richardson's account of his childhood, up to about age 13: 'As a bashful and not forward boy, I was an early favouri...Samuel Richardson  Print: Book
1700-1799[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'As soon as Mrs Richardson arose, the beau...Mrs [Samuel] Richardson and daughters PsalmsPrint: Book
1700-1799[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'As soon as Mrs Richardson arose, the beau...Richardson children PsalmsPrint: Book
1700-1799[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'As soon as Mrs Richardson arose, the beau...Richardson children LessonsPrint: Book
1700-1799[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1750s): 'We [...] spent the evening in Mrs Richard...Mrs [Samuel] Richardson and daughters  Print: Unknown
1850-1899[in reference to Israel Zangwill's praise for "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Conrad expresses] 'a disinterested admiration for his [Zangwill's] work-- dating far back, to ...Joseph Conrad Israel ZangwillPremier and the PainterPrint: Book
1900-1945[in the sick bay with measles, after a week not allowed to read] 'I was very bored, and started reading "Diary of a District Officer". Matron says that I must not read m...Hilary Spalding Kenneth BradleyDiary of a District OfficerPrint: Book


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