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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"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 David Hume 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 Tindal 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 Collins 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 Voltaire  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 Marcus Aurelius 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 Seneca  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 Epictetus  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 Plato  Print: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale Symington Print: Book
1800-1849" ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography], specifically mentioning Scott and Byron, led to wo...Elizabeth Sewell Walter Scott Print: Book
1800-1849" ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography], specifically mentioning Scott and Byron, led to wo...Elizabeth Sewell George Gordon Lord Byron Print: 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
1900-1945"[in her autobiography Growing up Into Revolution (1949), Margaret Cole] conveys the combination of amusement and delight she and her companions experienced reading Shaw ...Margaret Cole and Girton contemporariesGeorge Bernard Shaw Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was readi...Ellen Wilkinson and fatherErnst Haeckel Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was readi...Ellen Wilkinson and fatherT. H. Huxley Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was readi...Ellen Wilkinson and fatherCharles Darwin Print: Book
1800-1849" ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and their own teacher, used to read them: 'the Bible, the Ar...James Buchanan Emanuel Swedenborg Print: Book
1850-1899'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w...Frederick Willis George Bernard Shaw Print: Book
1850-1899'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w...Frederick Willis Herbert George Wells Print: Book
1850-1899'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w...Frederick Willis William Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book


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