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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'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield John Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield John Keats[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Peter Pindar[unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Faith Gray, dutiful member of a devout York evangelical family, self-accusingly notes in a review of the year 1768 a "strange mixture of Morality, History and Novels in ...Faith Gray [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasised even in her private diary that she did not read ...Frances Burney Thucydides[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, whe...Frances Burney Cicero[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Xenophon[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Tacitus[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Virgil[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'William Richard Grahame Alexander Pope[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'William Richard Grahame Alexander Pope[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose disciple he became, and whom he shortly met'John Masefield Wiliam Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Pr...Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ectsasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Leo Tolstoy[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron George Bernard Shaw[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Henrik Ibsen[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Karl Marx[unknown]Print: Book


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