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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
 
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in very fair couplets ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron anonModern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murdered the other ...'George Gordon Lord Byron anon[inscription on rock]Manuscript: inscriptionUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu...George Gordon Lord Byron anonreview of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und W...Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[Edgar Wallace recalled] the teacher read aloud "The Arabian Nights". "The colour and beauty of the East stole through the foggy windows of Reddin's Road School. Here wa...Edward Wallace AnonArabian NightsPrint: 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 anonThe Rubiyat of Omar KhayyamPrint: Book
1850-1899The Lord Mayor's Show. 'The boys always went ... They always brought home for me a little book, that opened out to nearly a yard of coloured pictures, displaying all the ...M.V, Hughes anonA Penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's ShowPrint: Book
1900-1945'One enthusiastic reader of "Land and Water" was the poet James Elroy Flecker, who, in the process of dying in a Swiss sanatorium, requested his parents to take out a sub...James Elroy Flecker anonLand and WaterPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699At meeting of new representative assembly for colony of Virginia in 1619, 'The man appointed speaker, John Pory, a veteran of the House of Commons, began the meeting by r...John Pory AnonCharter of Virginia AssemblyUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c.3 April 1792: '"A soul prepard needs no delays/ The summons come the Saint obey —/ Swift was his flight & short the road/...Robert Southey anon[memorial verse]Print: monument
1900-1945' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particu...E. Terry anonMiddle High German love-lyricPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particu... anonMiddle High German love-lyricPrint: Book
1900-1945'... Vera Brittain, attending her aunt's school in Surrey shortly before the First World War, glossed her [the aunt's] practice of allowing them to read extracts [ie cutt...Female pupils at Surrey school anonThe Times (extracts)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (... anonRobin HoodPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (... anonJack SheppardPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (... anonDick TurpinPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (... anonCharles PeacePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen Richard ...Robert Smillie anonDick TurpinPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ...Robert Smillie anonThree Fingered JackPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock anonThe Adventures of a PennyPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock anonCassell's History of EnglandPrint: Book


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