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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
 
1600-1699For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in t...William Gouge BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in t...William Gouge [various]Print: Book
1500-1599In his Childe-hood he was so addicted to those means which his Parents applied him unto, for the implanting in him the seeds of good Literature, that he rather needed a ...Thomas Gataker [various]Print: Book
1500-1599In this Family, partly by his own inclination, and partly by the encouragement of the Governours thereof, he performed Family Duties for the instruction and edification ...Thomas Gataker ScripturesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Ancient Universal HistoryPrint: Book
1500-1599At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of the four Empires, and some other Authors, he drew f...James Usher [various unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699And a Sermon of Mr. H. Hickman's at Oxford, much moved her (on Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not save them, &c.) The D...Margaret Charlton  Unknown
1600-1699When I was at any time from home, she would not pray in the Family, though she could not endure to be without it. She would privately talk to the servants, and read good ...Margaret Baxter [unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and repeated part, and sung part of a Psalm her self. T...Richard Baxter BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the papers, took place on the dissolution of King and parl...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsche Gazettes of all which I understand neither word no...George Gordon Lord Byron German periodicalsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish lady of 37 who has run away with a young Englishman of...George Gordon Lord Byron GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 8 August 1820: 'Fletcher reads you in Galignani -- and comes grinning over your speeches to me -- he has already noted Seventeen ...'William Fletcher Galignani's NewspaperPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating [Greek philosophy]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'At a second-hand stall, [Richard Hillyer] bought a four volume Half Hours with Best Authors. One could dismiss it as a potted Anglocentric collection of snippets by dead...Richard Hillyer Half Hours With Best AuthorsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... KoranPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... The NiebelungliedPrint: Book
1850-1899'I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir Theodore Martin.'Margaret Oliphant St James'sPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical


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