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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
 
1900-1945'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue fro...T.C. Elliott Charles ReadeCloister and the Hearth, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 6 April 1818: 'Had the Correspondence [between Henry Brougham and William Wilberforce, 1806] been published upon Mr B[rougham]'s firs...William Wordsworth Thomas De QuinceyClose Comments on a Straggling SpeechUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c. 14 April 1818]: 'The notes upon [Henry] Brougham's Speech, I have not seen, unless they be those from the pen of Mr De Quincey...William Wordsworth, Viscount LowtherThomas De QuinceyClose Comments on a Straggling SpeechUnknown
1900-1945'In reading the whole thing, I get a slight feeling of "leaning about" from question to question of the questionnaire. Maybe this is largely a subjective feeling, and any... clothes rationing questionnairePrint: questionnaire
1900-1945'Weather very dud, nothing doing, might as well be at home.
After breakfast I spread myself out in front of our new open fire in the hut, and read pretty steadily o...		Douglas Herbert Bell Edward Verrall LucasCloud and SilverPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Cloudesley - the interest is inexpressibly absorbing - there is a truth and majesty in the delineation of the passions, and a simplicity and grace i...Mary Shelley William GodwinCloudesleyPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your Georgian B. has arrived at last; many many thanks. I pounced on King Lear’s Wife, and though it was not more than I expected, it was not less. The only fault I ...Isaac Rosenberg Rupert BrookeCloudsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Gibbon and the Clouds of Aristophanes'Percy Bysshe Shelley AristophanesClouds, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley AristophanesClouds, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some of "Clouds".'John Ruskin AristophanesClouds, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.'John Ruskin AristophanesClouds, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Margery SharpCluny BrownPrint: Book
1800-1849?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from Cobbett; the lessons in Cassell?s "Popular Educator"...William Edwin Adams John CobbettCobbett's GrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett's Register" and "Wooler's Black Dwarf" were the fir...Christopher Thomson William CobbettCobbett's political registerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson Cobbett's Political RegisterPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one of these he mentions Mr. W-- Friend as a very able, firm, & worthy ...Claire Clairmont William CobbettCobbett's Weekly Political RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", and as I constantly saw the tract lying on the desk at...Samuel Bamford William CobbettCobbett's Weekly RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford Edward CockerCocker's Arithmetic, being a Plain and Easy Method...Print: Book
1600-1699" ... in Springfield when a printed copy of the code of laws of 1648 arrived in 1649, it was promptly 'published,' that is, read aloud to a gathering of the townspeople."...anon Code of Laws 1648Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Napoleon BonaparteCodice di Napoleone il Grande pel Regno d'ItaliaPrint: Book


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