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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
 
1800-1849till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscious poem to our saviour very overstrained....'.John Clare 'the Song Solomon'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'Paradise Lost and 'regaind' "'Comus' & 'Allegro' & 'P...John Clare John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consider Burns very inferior [.]John Clare Thomas GrayLettersUnknown
1800-1849'Look'd over the "Human Heart" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making in half filld pages & fine paper'John Clare The Human HeartPrint: Book
1800-1849'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read his...Charles Campbell [travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read his...Charles Campbell [history]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon'John Clare Josiah ConderThe Star in the EastPrint: Book
1800-1849'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read his...Charles Campbell [English classics]Print: Book
1800-1849'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol].John Clare John Hamilton ReynoldsThe Garden of FlorencePrint: Book
1800-1849'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love'John Clare Epistle of St JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'this morning a play bill was thrown into my house with this pompous blunder on the face of it [...].John Clare [playbill]Print: Handbill, playbill
1800-1849'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".'Joseph Mayett John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".'Joseph Mayett The Two CovenantsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Proselytised by a follower of the mystic Joanna Southcott, he read some of his propaganda but found "Some things that did not Correspond with the bible and also that it ...Joseph Mayett follower of Joanna Southcott  Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispensations of providence... those kinds of books were o...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreThe Shepherd of Salisbury PlainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispensations of providence... those kinds of books were o...Joseph Mayett The Farmer's FiresidePrint: Book
1800-1849'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all...Joseph Mayett William Cobbett Print: Book
1800-1849'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all...Joseph Mayett Richard Carlile Print: Book
1800-1849'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all...Joseph Mayett T.J. Wooler Print: Book
1800-1849'Sufferings of the post-horse... from Bloomfields 'the Farmers Boy'...Poplar 7th May 1832. T.W.M.T.W.M. Robert BloomfieldThe Farmers BoyUnknown


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