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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'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complete "Iliad" in English. Some of Shakespeare?s works ha...Samuel Bamford William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1800-1849?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of this kind arrived when a firm of printers in London...William Edwin Adams William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1850-1899'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo...William Henry Davies William Shakespeare[extracts in school textbook]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies William Shakespeare[works not reproduced in schoolbooks]Print: Book
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?...Thomas Carter William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareMerchant of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson William Shakespeare[various titles]Print: Book
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1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899"As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolWilliam Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849 'Then we write a part of the romance and read some Shakespears [sic]'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespearePlays including Richard III and King LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'We read Shakespeare'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book


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