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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
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 Walter Scott Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Mrs Benson, wife of the Headmaster of Wellington College, [scandalized] his friends by letting her children read George Eliot ...'Benson familyGeorge Eliot Print: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899"H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...H. M. Swanwick Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1850-1899"H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...H. M. Swanwick La Fontaine Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's...Marie Stopes Robert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's...Marie Stopes Algernon Swinburne Print: Book
1850-1899"Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb...Laura Knight Edgar Allen Poe Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Aeschylus  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Sophocles  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Euripedes  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Ovid  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Tacitus  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Herodotus  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Thucydides  Print: Book
1800-1849"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W...Frances Power Cobbe Diogenes Laertius Print: Book
1800-1849"When she was seven ... [Frances Power Cobbe's] interest in religious subjects had been activated by hearing Bunyan read aloud to her brothers." Frances Power Cobbe John Bunyan Print: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Edward Gibbon Print: Book


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