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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'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol...H.M. Tomlinson William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 29 May 1800: 'In the morning worked in the garden a little, read King John.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1900-1945'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he...Lennox Kerr William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 May 1800: 'Read Macbeth in the morning ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 19 May 1800: 'Read Timon of Athens.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 3 June 1800: 'I worked in the garden before dinner. Read R[ichar]d Second -- was not well after dinner ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareRichard the SecondPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 5 May 1802, 'I read The Lover's Complaint to Wm. in bed, and left him composed.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Lover's ComplaintPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'We sowed the Scarlet Beans in the orchard, and read Henry V. there.'William and Dorothy WordsworthWilliam ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 15 May 1802, 'It is now 1/2 past 10 ... A very cold and chearless morning ... I read in Shakespeare.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Like It.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Like It.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 23 June 1802, 'It is now 20 minutes past 10 -- a sunshiny morning. I walked to the top of the hill and sate under a wall...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sate by a nice snug fire, and William read Spenser, an...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 8 July 1802, 'In the afternoon ... I read the Winter's Tale ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Winter's TalePrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all...Philip Gibbs William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them...Christiana Thompson William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them...Alfred Baker Strettell William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book


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