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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'...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught. It consisted of strings of works, and of grim arra...Edmund Gosse [unknown][Latin Grammar]Print: Book
1850-1899'My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, containing a few steel engravings of statues. These attrac...Edmund Gosse [unknown][volume of engravings]Print: Book
1850-1899BL edition inscribed 'Victoria of Prussia' and initialled page after page with some dates presumeably showing when read to. Earliest date 5th August 1871 lesson 1, Lesso...Victoria of Prussia [unknown]The Peep of Day; or a series of the earliest religPrint: Book
1850-1899'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the death of Mr Garrick. A Ballad. Subject Love [underlined]...Frances Hamilton [unknown]Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately DeceasedPrint: Book
1700-1799an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension will rarely be sought...'Frances Hamilton [unknown]The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to t...Print: Book
1700-1799content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader had read the letter)Frances Hamilton [unknown]A Letter to Earl StanhopePrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France: 'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too enterprizing, presuming too much upon his own opinio...Frances Hamilton [unknown]Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully,...Print: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three games of cribbage with Polly'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant divine and a Roman Catholic priest some time about the...Edwin Muir [unknown][volume about theological debate]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [unknown][school books]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [unknown]Sunday StoriesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrive...Edwin Muir [unknown][story]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but I found it was a shilling and threepence and I had t...Edwin Muir [unknown][book on Wallace and Bruce]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac issues by "The Orkney Herald". It was an account of th...Edwin Muir [unknown][story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Isl...Print: Serial / periodical, almanac
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwo...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Bronco BillPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwo...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Jack WrightPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandmother and I went into the sitting room above the sho...Norman Nicholson [unknown]History of the World WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandmother and I went into the sitting room above the sho...John Slater [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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