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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
 
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol...H.M. Tomlinson BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introduced him to Greek mythology, "which in time brought ...Thomas A. Jackson [Greek myths]Print: Book
1900-1945'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o...Frank Argent [Freudian psychology]Print: Book
1900-1945'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o...Frank Argent [industrial administration]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 26 January, 1802: 'A dull morning. I have employed myself in writing this journal and reading newspapers till now (1/2 past...Dorothy Wordsworth [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 27 January, 1802: 'When we returned from Frank [Baty]'s, Wm. wasted his mind in the Magazines.'William Wordsworth [magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.'Dorothy Wordsworth German text/sPrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 4 June 1802, "... a tranquil night ... I read Mother Hubbard's Tale before I went to bed."Dorothy Wordsworth Mother Hubbard's TaleUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, describing how hours following William Wordsworth's marriage to Mary Hutchinson on 4 October 1802 spent: '... [at Kirby] we wen...Wordsworth Family verse epitaphPrint: tombstone epitaph
1800-1849'Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several other books, Rhodes Peak Scenery, in 4, I think, thin 4 ...Anne Lister Peak Scenery, or Excursions in DerbyshirePrint: Book
1800-1849[ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I read in 1/2 hour while walking in the Gardens' [she goe...Anne Lister Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal PolitiquePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3.Anne Lister [Greek Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I think it one of the best periodicals of the day. T...Anne Lister Retrospective ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...].Anne Lister ['Medical Mss']Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot.Anne Lister The Bay of BiscayUnknown
1800-1849Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot.Anne Lister Said Eve unto AdamUnknown
1800-1849This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheets of 4 columns each,one of the most inflamatory radi...Anne Lister Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and po...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last. Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...]Anne Lister Annals of philosophyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and...my aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele.Anne Lister BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'... [William Robertson Nicoll] devoured even more newspapers than books [had grown up with clergyman father's library of 17,000 volumes and had own library of 25,000 vol...William Robertson Nicoll newspapersPrint: Newspaper


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