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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 marginal lines and notes are copied from Macaulay's Bipontine edition They are of high interest NB The notes in pencil are my notes, of difficult interpretations, to...George Otto Trevelyan Caius Velleius PaterculusWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"The popular religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal claimed 'I do not think I was eight when I hit upon Cowper's lines, ending 'My father made them all!' That was what I...Frances Ridley Havergal William Cowper Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		"The Prime Minister's daughter Violet Asquith read ... [The Heir of Redclyffe] seven times 'from cover to cover -- never failing to cry at the end' ..."Violet Asquith Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899"The son of a shipwright, [Hall] Caine had been largely dependent upon public sources [in particuarly the Free Library, Liverpool] to satisfy his appetite for knowledge ....Hall Caine Samuel Taylor ColeridgeunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899"The suffragette, Annie Kenney (b.1879), looking back to her girlhood working in a Lancashire factory recalls ... going shares in a weekly girls' paper, 'full of wild rom...Annie Kenney and co-workers weekly girls' paperPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers transcribed sermonsManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers morning and evening prayersPrint: Book
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849"The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains a transcription, in ink, not necessarily made in Byr...anon William BeckfordAnnotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgeme...Manuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Then I promised Morley to contribute to a continuation of the 'Men of Letters' series a book upon George Eliot. I find it very hard to tell you the truth. I admire Engli...Leslie Stephen George EliotRomolaPrint: Book
1850-1899"There were not many books in that house, but Father and Mother as soon as they heard I could read sent me priceless volumes. One I have still, a bound copy of 'Aunt J...Rudyard Kipling Juliana Horatia Gatty EwingSix to SixteenPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked with one I loved two & thirty years ago / All along ...Leslie Stephen Alfred TennysonIn the Valley of the CauteretzPrint: Book
1800-1849"This minute I hear a carman is going to Navan, and I hasten to send you the Cottagers of Glenburnie, which I hope you will like as well as I do. I think it will do a vas...Maria Edgeworth Elizabeth HamiltonThe Cottages of GlenburniePrint: Book
1600-1699"This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the fleet. The contents of the letter are his offer of gr...Samuel Pepys Declaration of BredaPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill
1900-1945"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him": MS note in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, GOT's son. George Otto Trevelyan Elizabeth Von ArnimChristopher and ColumbusPrint: Book
1900-1945"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness overtook him. CPT" [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan]. Under this "He died on August 19th 1928...George Otto Trevelyan John PooleLittle Pedlington and the PedlingtoniansPrint: Book
1700-1799"Thomas Gray's copy of William Verral's Complete System of Cookery contains several marks and additions, allegedly in Gray's hand [including records of success or failure...Thomas Gray William VerralA Complete System of CookeryPrint: Book
1900-1945"To the Editor, Dear Sir, I have just been looking through some Gazettes intending them for salvage, & came across a note about John Bedford Leno. I am sending to you ... Uxbridge GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		"To the Editors of the Attempt, Gentlemen, If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication cannot be received after the twentieth of the month....anon The AttemptPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of...William Wordsworth Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book


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