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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[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding E.M. DelafieldDiary of a Provincial LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Several pages are transcribed from the 'Diary of an Ennuyee'.C.M.G. [anon] Anna Brownell JamesonDiary of an EnnuyeePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes about "Serventismo" which no foreigner can understa...George Gordon Lord Byron Henry MatthewsDiary of an InvalidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Diary of an Invalid'Mary Shelley Henry MatthewsDiary of an Invalid; being the Journal of a Tour.....Print: Book
1850-1899'Crabb Robinson's Diary is a blessing and I can talk with him for a few minutes any time and feel refreshed. I almost think he will set me reading ''The Excursion''!...'Emma Darwin Henry Crabb RobinsonDiary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kasper Lodewijk ValckenaerDiatribe de Aristobulo JudaeoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare....George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDichtung und WahrheitPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'For a boy in a Lancashire mining village around 1880, where there were few books to read (other than twenty volumes of Methodist Conference minutes) W.H.G. Kingston's "D...William Lax W.H.G. KingstonDick Onslow Among the Red IndiansPrint: Book
1900-1945'Restful week-end. Read a biography of Dick Sheppard. I never heard him preach. Astounded he was so unhappy at school.'Vere Hodgson Charles MatthewsDick Sheppard: Man of PeacePrint: Book
1850-1899'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (... anonDick TurpinPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen Richard ...Robert Smillie anonDick TurpinPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey [unknown]Dick TurpinPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield anonDick Whittington and his CatPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have been reading about Mrs Perugini, daughter of Dickens.'Vere Hodgson Gladys StoneyDickens and DaughterPrint: Book
1700-1799'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got a perusal of "The Life and Adventures of Sir Willia...Nathan BaileyDictionarium BritannicumPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth describes his eldest son's slowness in reading to his brother Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1819: ' ... he is so long in finding his words in his...John Wordsworth dictionaryPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very clever; for, although she had received little or n...Jane Edwards BayleyDictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799'The part of your "Dictionary" which you have favoured me with the sight of has given me such an idea of the whole, that I most sincerely congratulate the publick upon th...Thomas Birch Samuel JohnsonDictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Let the Preface [to Johnson's Dictionary] be attentively perused, in which is given, in a clear, strong, and glowing style, a comprehensive, yet particular view of what ...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonDictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 February 1756:] 'We have looked in Johnson [i.e. his Dictionary] for [italics] Athlete [end italics], no such word there, nor...Catherine Talbot and familySamuel JohnsonDictionaryPrint: Book


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