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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'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H...Frances Burney  Print: Book
1700-1799'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H...Frances Burney  Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I have heard Doctor Collier say [wrote Hester Thrale in undated letter] that Harry Fielding quite doated upon his Sister Sally till she had made herself through ... Dr. ...Sarah Fielding Virgil Print: Book
1800-1849'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan...Frances Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein 
1800-1849'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan...Frances Burney Catherine Talbot 
1800-1849'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan...Frances Burney Hester Chapone Unknown
1850-1899'Pupils at Queen's College remembered the puritanical standards imposed by Owen Breen, English and Elocution Professor there in the 1890s. L. V. Hodson notes that when r...English class, Queen's CollegeRichard Brinsley Sheridan Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Ewing Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our...Charlotte Yonge Print: Book
1800-1849Josephine Butler [nee Grey] remembered her mother's '[assembling] us daily for the reading aloud of some solid book ... by a kind of examination fllowing the reading alou...Grey Family  Print: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-fo...Young Lady Aberdeen and under-butler  Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of the house lived in by her family [to read], in the ...Frances Mary Buss  
1900-1945"Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener Tom Houghton; sneaking into the kitchen to spirit aw...Ellen Clifford  Print: Book
1900-1945At first it was thought that Jeremy was deaf - but tests showed that his hearing was perfect. When the condition [dyslexia] was finally diagnosed his mother read to him ...Elizabeth Edith Huggins  Print: Unknown
1850-1899'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou...Henry Maynard William Law Print: Book
1850-1899'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou...Henry Maynard Jacob Boehme Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'... [Dorothea Beale] learnt to love Shakespeare through her father reading it aloud ...'Miles Beale William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton William Shakespeare Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Unknown


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