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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'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser Anthony Trollope[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my las...John Buckley Castieau Peter Parley [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until neighbours compained about the noise I made in the e...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I had worshipped Cole on the printed page, and my first sight of him in the flesh was fittingly magical.'Ralph Glasser G.D.H. Cole[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'When fairly launched into a subject, especially in a formal lecture in his favourite field, French political thought, these disquieting elements faded; and words and cad...Ralph Glasser Harold Joseph Laski[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Writing on liberty, arguing that its attainment was an inborn duty, he said that in order to divine its proper use one must "Listen to the still, small voice within you....Ralph Glasser Harold Joseph Laski[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'There [living in a better area than previously, after his reformation from being a gambling addict], in his practical fashion, he [Glasser's father] looked after himself...Mr Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after, I talked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read, then I went to dimer'Richard Rhodes [un[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart Ben Jonson[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart Samuel Taylor Coleridge[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart George Crabbe[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I went about the house, and reed, did eate my breakfast, then I reed againe tell dinner time, then praied'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I did read of a good book, and then went about the house: then I reed againe'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a while, reed, went about'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I was then engaged in a laborious trade and not allow...Thomas Tryon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment'Thomas Tryon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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