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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'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliq...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliq...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]Print: Broadsheet, Pamphlet
1800-1849'For breakfast I had a penny roll and half a pint of porter. This I took at a public house - for two reasons: first, that I might have an opportunity of looking at the mo...Thomas Carter [n/a][morning newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'For days I've been trying to copy out that passage - pages from Heseltine [Peter Warlock, the composer]'s letters: the book is on my table: I have the time. Why can't I ...Antonia White Peter Warlock[letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo...James Clunie Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo...James Clunie Adam SmithWealth of NationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo...James Clunie Charles DarwinThe Descent of ManPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'for each there had been no poet later than Byron...'Philip and Emily GosseGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today. I have, however, snatched 20 minutes for the first tw...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Year's ExilePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'For hour after hour we did "Search the Scriptures". These were booklets in which texts from a book in the Bible were printed with blank spaces; we were to fill in the ch...Wilfred Ruprecht Bion Search the ScripturesPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899
1900-1945		'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all of Scott, who influenced his own first writings.'Hugh Walpole Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in motion an early ferment: "New ideas from the perusal o...John Clare Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'For light reading I like biography and travel - I see there are one or two out about the South Seas that should be interesting - I've only read two American books that I... unknown[biography and travel]Print: Book
1850-1899'For lighter reading we had the Shah's Diary, a work whose child-like simplicity admitted of but one interpretation. I never got through very much of it, but I did ...Gertrude Bell Naser al-Din Shah QajarDiariesPrint: Book
1900-1945'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until neighbours compained about the noise I made in the e...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'For my own War reading I found, as the popularity of "The Times Broadsheets" proved, that the essential was, remoteness from actuality. Henry James, by his sublime irrel...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'For my own War reading I found, as the popularity of "The Times Broadsheets" proved, that the essential was, remoteness from actuality. Henry James, by his sublime irrel...Ronald Storrs William BlakeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace, and was well pleased with my purchase; for I found...Thomas Carter Quintus Horace[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace, and was well pleased with my purchase; for I found...Thomas Carter Henry Kirk WhiteRemainsPrint: Book
1850-1899'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 66-80.'John Ruskin [unknown]MuneraPrint: Book


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