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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		Henry James to E. C. Stedman, 1 September 1875: "My pretentions, in attenpting to talk about Tennyson [in review of Queen Mary], were very modest ... I know him only as w...Henry James Alfred TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live bravely and to use my life for noble ends. These wer...Thomas Burt Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907, in response to her question about his favourite fairy stories when a child (part of research for her 1907 book on the favouri...Henry James various[unidentified book of fairy stories]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau David Friedrich StraussDas Leben JesuPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" - read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensib...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't c...Samuel Langhorne Clemens Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of players", and once every year I peru...James Glass Bertram John GaltSir Andrew WylliePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of players", and once every year I peru...James Glass Bertram John GaltAnnals of the ParishPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper books on historyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper foreign language grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes how the nineteenth-century handloom weaver Wiliam Farish '"with Walkingham's arithmetic, and a slate and pencil at my side ... used to con over the pr...William Farish Walkinghamarithmetic textbookPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'J. A. Leatherland clubbed together with some like-minded velvet weavers to purchase, "'Harris's Hermes', from which we gained some knowledge of the principles, elements ...Kettering velvet-weavers Harris's HermesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley (whose jobs included winding bobbins and working as...Benjamin Brierley George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley (whose jobs included winding bobbins and working as...Benjamin Brierley Robert Burns Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent relates how the nineteenth-century apprentice compositor William Adams rejected his usual work associates and walking-companions after discovering Young's "...William Adams Edward YoungThe Complaint, and the Consolation, or, Night Thou...Print: Book


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