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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'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...'Thomas Green MontesquieuDe l?esprit des loixPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Montesquieu (Decadence des Romains).' Alfred Tennyson MontesquieuDecadence des RomainsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have recieved Maga with the inclosures safe to night but have only as yet got her looked over. For one thing I percieve that Mr More's hymn to the Evening star is perf...James Hogg More'Hymn to Hesperus'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, ...James Lackington MorganunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morris; I did not know (what A. had put into his Idyll [...Alfred and Emily Tennyson Morris?work on ornithologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'During the spring or summer of 1789, W[ordsworth] translated Moschus' Lament for Bion [Idyllium III] ... 'William Wordsworth MoschusLament for BionUnknown
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of Shelley's reading in early 1816. Later in the year t...Percy Bysshe Shelley Moschus Print: Book
1900-1945'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".'Wilfred Owen Moschus'Epitaph on Bion'Print: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] had been reading Motley's Dutch Republic.'Alfred Tennyson MotleyDutch RepublicPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a regular scavager: "No, I can't say I was sorry when I was forced to be idle that way, that I hadn't kept up my reading, nor tried to keep it ...Bill n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rather two -- one was "Martini Luigi Implora pace...George Gordon, Lord Byron n/an/aManuscript: Unknown, tombstone epitaphs
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going together, in the same carriage, to dine with Earl Gre...George Gordon, Lord Byron n/aJavanese newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is the first English Newspaper (except Galignani's Paris...George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a[English newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times."George Gordon, Lord Byron n/aThe TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he...Lennox Kerr n/aBiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which she read and re-read with absorbed delight, from Hak...Rose Macaulay n/aOxford English DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'As late as the First World War, a Manchester boy could find an epiphany in an old volume of the Journal rescued from a rubbish bin: "It was dog-eared and pages were miss...'a Manchester boy' n/aChambers's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
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 n/aBiblePrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... Has read The Old Curiosity Shop, Innocents Abroad, Th...questionaire respondent n/aBiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay n/aBiblePrint: Book


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