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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 mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgri...mother of Joseph Wright Friedrich KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chap...Christopher Thomson John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chap...Christopher Thomson Laurence Sterne Print: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chap...Christopher Thomson Samuel Johnson Print: Book
1800-1849'Circuit preacher Joseph Barker found that theology simply could not compete with Shakespeare: "What pleased me most was the simplicity and beauty of his style. He had a...Joseph Barker William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker William Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker Alexander Pope Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker Oliver Goldsmith Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker James Thomson Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetitie for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chr...Joseph Barker George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker George Gordon Byron Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker Thomas Hobbes Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker John Locke Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker Isaac Newton Print: Book
1800-1849'Though one former ploughboy extolled Shakespeare for possessing a deep sense of the pure morality of the Gospel" and quoted from him on most of the 440 pages of his auto...Samuel Westcott Tilke William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Ch...Thomas Frost Samuel Taylor Coleridge[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Ch...Thomas Frost Percy Bysshe Shelley[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chart...Thomas Frost Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, periodical bound into books


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