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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
 
1700-1799'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelists "of considerable genius, as well as strict morals"...Elizabeth Carter Jane WestA Tale of the Times and other worksPrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: 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 Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum kn...Arthur Harding Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The only social event she goes to is the Sunday afternoon tea run by her chapel. Again she has not made many friends here, but she seems to enjoy going. Apart from that,...Molly Charles DickensA tale of two citiesPrint: Book
1850-189918 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday. Morn. did little German. Aft. Read 5 ch. Matthew. 5 pm bath. 7-8 whist -2. Bought a bag 8˝ Expected to leave Paderborn. Read a Tale of Two Cities (Dick)'William Thomas Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "A Tale of Two Cities" to the Babs after tea.'Verena Pennefather Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "A Tale of Two Cities" to Babs after tea & washed my hair.'Verena Pennefather Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wonder what you think of my long silence after the receipt of your play ["A Tale of Young Lovers", late May]? I was just fiinishng a novel and putting off looking a...Joseph Conrad Cecil RobertsA Tale of Young Lovers: A Tragedy in Four ActsPrint: Book, playscript
1900-1945'Getting on capitally with the Anatomy of the Brain in Gerrish.'Albert Ruskin Cook Frederic Henry GerrishA Text-Book of AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Frederic Henry GerrishA Text-Book of AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Thief in Night Hornung. Ev Roulette.'William Thomas Ernest William HornungA Thief in the NightPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, being fond of reading, including poetry: 'somehow he h...Willie anon Charles Mackay (ed)A Thousand and One Gems of English PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'A Thousand Miles up the Nile'Sarah Good Amelia EdwardsA Thousand Miles up the NilePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is braying; L. reading, not without sympathy, Ethel Smyth; ...Leonard Woolf Ethel SmythA Three-Legged Tour in GreecePrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Elizabeth T. Alexander Halliday SutherlandA Time to KeepPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Elizabeth T. Alexander Halliday SutherlandA Time to KeepPrint: Book


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