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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[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 TempestPrint: 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 ShakespeareMuch Ado about NothingPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, T...questionaire respondent William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William ShakespeareShakespeare's Complete WorksPrint: Book
1850-1899'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare rea...Shakespeare Reading Circle (local)William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare rea...Shakespeare Reading Circle (local)William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945Ex-Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the Falloden Papers, on how he spent his time after being deposed from the Cabinet in 1916: ' ... I spent some weeks alone in the ...Sir Edward Grey William ShakespeareplaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' ...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death bores through the King's crowns - and 'farewell King...John Ruskin William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of Procris'.Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareVenus and AdonisPrint: Book
1850-1899'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w...Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1850-1899"It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prep...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899" It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, pre...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareMuch Ado about NothingPrint: Book
1850-1899" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession entire, in the shape of a reprint more hideous and more...Edmund Gosse William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I wo...Leslie Stephen William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899 "If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy to read some of the old dramatists, being prompted by...Leslie Stephen William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn William Shakespeare Print: Book


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