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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
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar] "These two or three pages are worth the whole Fren...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch's narrative. But the working up of Brutus by Cassiu...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nights" in Julius Caesar] "Plutarch's hint is admirably...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite...G.W.M. ReynoldsThe Mysteries of LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite...G.W.M. ReynoldsThe Mysteries of the Court of LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite...anon Edward Lloyd[various titles published by Lloyd]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a blind female seller of 'small wares', the conversation turns to her younger son: "My youngest son -he's now fourteen -is asthmatical; but he'...anon  Print: Book, Broadsheet, Serial / periodical, penny book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper: "The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my family's dinner to the bakehouse, bring it home after ch...anon [n/a]Lloyd's Weekly NewspaperPrint: Broadsheet, Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by t...anon variousPrint: Book, leaves from books used to wrap food purchases
1800-1849
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
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d...John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d...  Print: Book, Serial / periodical, novels
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d...G.W.M. ReynoldsReynolds's MiscellanyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a juvenile crossing sweeper: "I can read and write -oh, yes, I mean read and write well -read anything, even old English; and I write pretty fa...Jack London JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "My daughter is eighteen and my son eleven; that is my boy, sir; he's reading the Family Friend just now. M...anon Family FriendPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford them no, for I have no wish to incur any extraneous exp...anon John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford them no, for I have no wish to incur any extraneous exp...anon William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford them no, for I have no wish to incur any extraneous exp...anon  Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a street entertainer -a 'blind reader': "I was not born blind, but lost my sight four years ago, in consequence of an aneurism... At last I tho...anon GospelPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age: "Of a night some one would now and then read hymns, out of books they sold about the streets -I'm sure they wer...anon  Print: Book, Pamphlet, religious tracts sold in streets containing hymns


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