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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'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton [magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton James BoswellTour of the HebridesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of AfricaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton [Madame] de Genlis Print: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Elizabeth HamiltonThe Cottagers of GlenburniePrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert Colyer, who rose to become a celebrated Unitarian minister, deliberately chose to dwell upon the moment when, as a child labourer in a Fewston linen factory, he b...Robert Collyer The History of Whittington and his CatPrint: Book
1800-1849 'Thursday 16 sept 1824. Had a visit from my friend Henderson of Milton who brought 'Don Juan' in his Pocket' [He] 'advisd me to raed 'Don Juan'we talkd about books & ...John Clare ByronDon JuanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Growing up in extreme poverty in East London, Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand "Iliad" and was dazzled: "What a revelation it was to me. Pictures of romance and beauty I...Will Crooks HomerThe IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849"Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one comfort to those that it nicknames 'Humbugs' [.]"John Clare John Bull MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament'John Clare The New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it todayJohn Clare John FoxeFoxes Book of MartyrsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The rainy morning has kept me at home & I have amused myself heartily sitting under Waltons Sycamore tree hearing him discourse of fish ponds & fishing. What a delightfu...John Clare Izaak WaltonThe Complete AnglerPrint: Book
1800-1849Read the September No of the London Mag: only 2 good articles in it-'Blakesmore in H-shire' by Elia & review of 'Goethe' by De Quincey these are excellent and sufficient ...John Clare The London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great deal on credit for this world when he imagines that go...John Clare The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he spea...John Clare William ShakespeareThe SonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he spea...John Clare Thomas Chatterton'Poems of Chatterton'Print: Book
1800-1849'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot.John Clare Moore's AlmanackPrint: Pamphlet, almanack
1800-1849'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of ...John Clare William Collins Collins'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of ...John Clare John Ogilvie'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various ...Print: Book


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