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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'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Alexander Pope Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Henry Fielding Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Tobias Smollett Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Oliver Goldsmith Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Richard Brinsley Sheridan Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating John Keats Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating William Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings whi...Samuel Bamford John MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings whi...Samuel Bamford John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a matter of fact I am at present reading a real "old french" romance "The High History of the Holy Graal" translated in the lovely "Temple Classics". If I dared to ...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]The High History of the Holy GraalPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer...Muriel Box n/aThe MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer...Muriel Box n/aThe GemPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer...Muriel Box n/aThe Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As a reader he [the Hudson children's tutor, a Mr Trigg] certainly was great, and every evening, when the evenings were long, he would give a two hours’ reading to...William Henry Hudson Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a seaman in the mid-1870s, Ben Tillett had not yet been exposed to revolutionary literature, "But I discovered Thomas Carlyle and was held spellbound by the dark fury...Ben Tillett Thomas Carlyle Print: Unknown
1900-1945'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ...Thomas and Florence HardyJane AustenEmmaPrint: Book


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