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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare Zig ZagPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare Prince CherryPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1900-1945"July 19 1909. Ah me. I was reading this soon after dear little Paul died." [Paul = grandson of George Otto Trevelyan.]. This after a section of Caligula "quorum dou infa...George Otto Trevelyan Caius Suetonius TranquillusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945"Just read Atlantic Ordeal, the account of Mary Cornish's eight days in the Atlantic with the little boys from the City of Benares, in the lifeboat. Gets no better on r...Vere Hodgson Elspeth HuxleyAtlantic Ordeal: The Story of Mary CornishPrint: Book
1700-1799"Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves in the shade while John took a book from his pocket...John Pitchford Thomas GreyPerigrinus PorteousPrint: Book
1700-1799"Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves in the shade while John took a book from his pocket...John Pitchford Thomas GreyElegy written in a Country ChurchyardPrint: Book
1900-1945"Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On 10 March 1916 she tested this proposition by reading...Lady Cynthia Asquith George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1700-1799"Lady Mary [Wortley Montagu] used French for some of the (relatively few) notes in her Montaigne." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Michel de Montaigne Print: Book
1850-1899"Laetus cost me 2s. 6d. My wife bet me 2s. 6d. I couldn't read it aloud without crying. I thought I could. But after a page or two - I put my hand in my pocket. I said th...Revd. Going Juliana Horatia Gatty EwingLaetus Sorte Mea or The Story of a Short LifePrint: Book
1700-1799"Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly attached to Ovid, whose Metamorphoses I read at scho...William Wordsworth OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1850-1899"Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb...Laura Knight Edgar Allen Poe Print: Book
1850-1899"Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb...Laura Knight The Ingoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb...Laura Knight The Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945"Many thanks for 'Mankind in the Making'. Like 'Anticipations' it is very wonderful, and very uneven."Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1700-1799"Mary Astell returned a borrowed copy of Pierre Bayle's Pensees diverses (4th ed., 1704) to the owner, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with the first volume profusely annotate...Mary Astell Pierre BaylePensees diverses vol 1Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that "'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an African Farm and a strange expression came over her face...anon Olive SchreinerThe Story of an African FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p...Tiddy Alfred Tennysonpoems including The RevengePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p...Mary Stocks and siblingsAlfred Tennysonpoems including The RevengePrint: Book
1850-1899"Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to me good & dignified without being too much like a ser...Leslie Stephen John MorleyOn CompromisePrint: Book
1850-1899"Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]."William Ewart Gladstone Mary Elizabeth BraddonunknownPrint: Book


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