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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'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Mark Twain Print: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Walter Scott Print: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Anne/Charlotte/Emily Bronte Print: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams George Eliot Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading," notes that Mary Ann Evans began reading Scott when aged seven.Mary Ann Evans Walter Scott Print: Book
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1800-1849		"Anthony Errington, a Tyneside wagonway wright, sat down in 1823 to write out his life history ... After brief accounts of his parents and his infancy, he turned to his e...Anthony Errington  Print: tombstone epitaphs
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1800-1849		"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under the shadow of the trees and read about the Centurion,...Alexander Somerville  Print: Book
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1800-1849		"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under the shadow of the trees and read about the Centurion,...Alexander Somerville  Print: Book
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1800-1849		"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under the shadow of the trees and read about the Centurion,...Alexander Somerville  Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaWilliam Shakespeare Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaJohn Milton Print: Book
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge Henry James Print: Unknown
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge William Dean Howells Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Walter Scott Print: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Alfred, Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ...R.L. Wild William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ...R.L. Wild David Herbert Lawrence Print: Book


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