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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'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular p...Ethel Mannin [unknown][home medical books]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inner man"... That I might make the day as long as possi...Thomas Carter [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I Came home and did studie my lector, and read a whill'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]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][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and wa...Margaret Hoby [unknown]Diet of the SoulPrint: Book
1500-1599'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and...Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1500-1599'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher [unknown][children's comics]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ...Walter Citrine [unknown][school stories from The Captain]Print: Book
1900-1945'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p...George Scott [unknown][boys' weeklies]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abroad, Chaliapin, Caruso, and European affairs. But har... [unknown][travel books]Print: Book
1850-1899'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history: "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ranked seco...Harry Lauder [unknown][American History]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][history]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][biblical criticism]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][treatises on algebra and geometry]Print: Book
1850-1899'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shepherding: "the difficulty was to get hold of books. T...Edwin Whitlock [unknown][Sunday School prize books]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock [unknown][religious magazines]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes


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