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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'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... [unknown][detective thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... [unknown][Western novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies [unknown][Western novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies [unknown][detective thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies [unknown][children's books]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies [unknown][travel books, including some on Tibet]Print: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton [unknown][account of Bounty mutiny]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][Life of Scott]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I went about the house, and then went to my work and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I hard Mr Rhodes read, and so I went to priuatt examenation and praier: after I went to supper'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praer I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I dined: after, I talked with my neighbours of that we had hard, and Reed some thinge to them'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read of a sermon book'Richard Rhodes [unknown][Sermons]Print: Book
1600-1699'after ward I talked with Mr Gregorie, hard Mr Rhodes read, and, after, I went to priuat medetation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I Came home I walked and reed, and then I went to priuat praier and examenation'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to work and then I went about the house, hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed and then went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran...William Gifford [unknown][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Faith Gray, dutiful member of a devout York evangelical family, self-accusingly notes in a review of the year 1768 a "strange mixture of Morality, History and Novels in ...Faith Gray [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul [unknown]John O' London'sPrint: Serial / periodical


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