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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'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier The Wreck of the GrosvenorPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier William Harrison AinsworthOld St Paul'sPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Frederick MarryatMr Midshipman EasyPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier George EliotThe Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I w...Elizabeth Barrett Homer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I w...Elizabeth Barrett Elizabeth BarrettThe Battle of MarathonManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I was...Elizabeth Barrett Homer unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Hume's "History of England", and many o...James Watson David HumeThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Hume's "History of England", and many o...James Watson Johann Lorenz von MosheimAn Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modernPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hume's "History of England", and many othe...James Watson Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'During this period my indebtedness to an eighteenth-century poet became enormous. At every spare moment I read Young’s “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, ...Edmund Blunden Edward YoungThe Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,...Print: Book
1800-1849'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a ...John Cole William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ...Joseph Mayett William Cobbett[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ...Joseph Mayett Thomas Wooler[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ...Joseph Mayett Richard Carlisle[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi...Thomas Carter [n/a]Anti-Jacobin ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi...Thomas Carter Barry Edward O'MearaNapoleon in Exile, or a Voice from St HelenaPrint: Book


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