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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'"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and leaders aloud for the benefit of the rest. When it cam...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible and the worn-out ... prayer-book, and the ... voice o... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'My uncle and some others were subscribers to The Weekly Dispatch, each of the subscribers agreeing as to the time and days they were to have the paper read.'villagers of South Mimms [n/a]The Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt [n/a]British ControversionalistPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt [n/a]Educational CoursePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I knew it was on sale, I walked to Beddington and cam...Thomas Burt [n/a]The Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Testament every Sunday after the opening prayer. I was...Christopher Thomson [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Opening the "Newcastle Chronicle" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed "A Coalowner". From beginning to end the letter was a fierce diatribe aga...Thomas Burt [n/a]Newcastle ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899?When about fourteen years old a comrade lent me a few stray numbers of the "London Journal", a highly spiced periodical which I read with great gusto. It was full of adv...Thomas Burt [n/a]London JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was finished we turned back to the first, and began them ove...Thomas Catling [n/a]PsalmsPrint: Book
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a]Cassell's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a]London JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799??now, being able to read, I had almost continually the Testament in my hand. I had all the wondrous accounts in the Revelations, and my father, not a little pleased, wou...Samuel Bamford [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Athenaeum"'George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]The Contemporary LiteraturePrint: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford [n/a]The Armenian MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time replaced with The Examiner.] ?The substitution of the...William Edwin Adams [n/a]Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time replaced with 'The Examiner'.] ?The substitution of...William Edwin Adams [n/a]The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen...William Edwin Adams [n/a]Chambers's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical


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