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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'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise...Patrick McGill Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau David Friedrich StraussDas Leben JesuPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob PaulusDas Leben JesuPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Feb. 11th. [...] Read Das Lied von der Glocke by Schiller.' [further/other readings of this text (or sessions translating it) also recorded in journal entries ...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerDas Lied von der GlockePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley August von KotzebueDas merkw?rdigste Jahr meines LebensPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetching up my arrears in books, which everybody (who reads...Sydney Smith August von KotzebueDas merkw?rdigste Jahr meines LebensPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin August von KotzebueDas merkwurdigste Jahr meines Lebens
1900-1945Considerable marginalia, mainly in English but some in German, throughout the volume. Detailed notes on the rear inside cover.Vernon Lee Karl GroosDas Seelenleben des KindesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottlieb FichteDas System der Sittenlehre nach den PrincipienPrint: Book
1800-1849read Tacitus and le Testament'Mary Shelley August H. J. LafontaineDas TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'Lynch? Lynch?' The name was jotted down in a notebook...Robert Louis Stevenson Dashing Kate, the Female DetectivePrint: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...Patricia Beer Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David Copperfield. His parents punished him when they lea...George Acorn Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one...Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and the first violinist of a visiting orchestra. He ... e...Neville Cardus Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna...questionaire respondent Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son ... who was looked after by an aged housekeeper ['an ...Florence Murray Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
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1900-1945		Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfield" and then it had to be in secret' (p.7).'Mary Paley Marshall Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book


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