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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
 
1800-1849'Early Rising' 'Just at the early peep of dawn...' [transcribes text] 'Clare'.Mary Dugdale John ClareEarly RisingUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate [penny dreadfuls about Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bil...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1900-1945'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more possible to me and therefore less wonderful. They deg...Edward Morgan Forster A. S. EddingtonThe Nature of the Physical WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Edith, though a great reader, did not consume all and any poetry as a child; she was kept in regularly on Saturday afternoons at one time because of her refusal to learn...Edith Sitwell Felicia Hemans'Casabianca'Print: Book
1850-1899'Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queen'Sarah Good Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interested by nobody but Mary Crawford. - Edward pleased wi...Edward Knight Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interested by nobody but Mary Crawford. - Edward pleased wi...George Knight Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'Edward Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'George Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Edward - Much like his Father. - Objected to Mrs Rushworth's Elopement as unnatural'.James Edward Austen-Leigh Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Edward - preferred it to M.P. - only. - Mr. K liked by every body.'James Edward Austen-Leigh Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly absorbed all the stock phrases and attitudes assoc...Edward Ezard Frank Richards[stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Edward is writing a Novel - we have all heard what he has written - it is extremely clever; written with great ease & spirit; - if he can carry it on in the same way, it...Jane Austen James Edward Austenunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shepherding: "the difficulty was to get hold of books. T...Edwin Whitlock n/aBiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shepherding: "the difficulty was to get hold of books. T...Edwin Whitlock [unknown][Sunday School prize books]Print: Book
1850-1899'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shepherding: "the difficulty was to get hold of books. T...Edwin Whitlock n/aPOst Office Directory, 1867Print: Book
1800-1849'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever wil...James Hogg Walter Scott'Glenfinlas; Or, Lord Ronald's Coronach'Print: Book


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