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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'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 ScottMarmionPrint: 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'To Henry Erskine, Esq'Print: Book
1800-1849'elaborate, striking, almost too glaring'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Henry MelvillSermon on the Doctrine of the ResurrectionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Eleanor in great pain. Very brave but collapsed—throat ghastly. O Henry ... no good as a pick-me-up. Tried gramophone—better ... One feels so isolated all alone wi...Mary Franeis Butts O. Henry (pseud)[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Eleanor in great pain. Very brave but collapsed—throat ghastly. O Henry ... no good as a pick-me-up. Tried gramophone—better ... One feels so isolated all alone wi...Mary Franeis Butts Bertrand RussellProblems of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Elegy by Mr J. Hunter Sigh not ye winds as passing oer, The Chambers of the dead ye fly... J.H.'Bowly groupAnne Home'Elegy' OR Poems by Mrs John HunterUnknown
1850-1899'Elinor Glyn recalled "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) being read to her as a child ...'Elinor Glyn George MacDonaldThe Princess and the GoblinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Elinor herself spent much time reading the publications, especially Richard Ingalese's "The History and Power of Mind"; it seemed to fit in, in so many ways, with her ow...Elinor Glyn Richard IngaleseHistory and Power of Mind, TheUnknown
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... From this time the poor prisoner earnestly lon...Eliza Cooper [unknown]Come to JesusPrint: Book, Pamphlet, tract
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ...Eliza Cooper [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ... [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On passing through the infirmary one day, I fo... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On passing through the infirmary one day, I fo...Eliza Cooper [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza talks of having read in a Newspaper that all the 1st Lieut:s of the Frigates whose Captains were to be sent into Line-of-Battle ships, were to be promoted to the r...Eliza de Feuillide [newspaper reports]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman Ally Sloper's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman (nursemaid) and Mew children Christmas numbers of magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
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1900-1945		'Elizabeth Rignall, a London painter's daughter, was not permitted to read anything else on Sundays, so she treated Pilgrim's Progress as a horror comic. Irresistibly dra...Elizabeth Rignall John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma"'. History of MontezumaPrint: Book


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