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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
 
1850-1899'Read "George [Gaith?]" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1500-1599'then hard Mr Rhodes read, and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then, after dinner, I walked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'M. Rhodes read a sarmon of the Reuel: and so went to bed'Margaret Rhodes [unknown][sermon - Revelation]Print: Book
1900-1945'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o...Frank Argent [unknown][political history]Print: Book
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t...Elizabeth Blackburn [unknown][Ancient Greek literature]Print: Book
1500-1599'after that I walked abroade, then I Cam in and wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, then I praied with Mr Rhodes'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I hard Mr Rhodes read tell allmost dinner time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's "Poverty" and a basic economics...questionaire respondent [unknown][basic economics textbook]Print: Book
[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, T...questionaire respondent [unknown][various history and biography]Print: Book
1850-1899'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow ...Allen Clark [unknown][physiology textbooks]Print: Book
1900-1945'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs....Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy [unknown][medical book]Print: Book
1500-1599'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after which I hilped to read of the book for the placing of...Margaret Hoby [unknown][a book of the pews in the church]Manuscript: Codex
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' ...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland [unknown][reports on education in Prussia]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' ...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland [unknown][romantic fiction]Print: Unknown
'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...'Walter Besant [unknown][American literature]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1900-1945'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & the bindings were exquisite'.Katherine Mansfield [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek [unknown][old plays]Print: Book


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