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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' ... as I had started adolescence in a blaze of idealism, the conflicting ugliness of factory life often drove my spirits into the depths. I rushed to poetry for escape ...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... as late as the 1890s, Harriet Shaw Weaver's mother was shocked when she came upon her adolescent daughter reading "Adam Bede" ... the local vicar was asked to call ...Harriet Shaw Weaver George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'William Ewart Gladstone Latin textsPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'William Ewart Gladstone Italian textsPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... at Stanway in 1916 for her sister's twenty-first birthday, Lady Cynthia [Asquith] entertained family and guests after dinner by [mockingly] reading from The Rosary ...Lady Cynthia Asquith Florence L. BarclayThe RosaryPrint: Book
1800-1849' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [having read it to review it in 1805]: "I am come to R...Robert Southey William RoscoeThe Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book
1800-1849' ... C[oleridge] was reading ... [Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria] on arrival at Allan Bank in Sept. 1808 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PetrarchDe Vita SolitariaPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particu... anonMiddle High German love-lyricPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particu...E. Terry anonMiddle High German love-lyricPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... foul morning ... altogether rotten. I came up for breakfast to find everyone feeling sick, & nothing to eat. After some time I partook of a frugal meal, in th...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1900-1945' ... from a chance meeting in a railway carriage with Kipling, [Newman] Flower discovered that he had read ... [The Story-Teller] almost from the first.'Rudyard Kipling The Story-TellerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapegoat", which he read on publication in 1891 ...'William Ewart Gladstone Hall CaineThe ScapegoatPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... had my dinner & read the Newspaper & boiled a pot of potatoes ...'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899' ... had my dinner and fixed some soup then read a good bit from Christian Age ...'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]The Christian AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899' ... had Roast Beef & Potatoes for dinner, then made some stew for tomorrow, then read the Christian Age. Went to bed about 8 P.M.'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]The Christian AgePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849' ... he [ie George III] paid attention when books were read to him, and asked for excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson" ...'King George III James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849' ... I have lately read Dr. Whitaker's history of ... Whalley both with profit and pleasure.'William Wordsworth Thomas Dunham WhitakerHistory of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Hon...Print: Book
1900-1945' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's "Life of Scott" to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Qu...Sir Edward Fry John Gibson LockhartLife of ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's Life of Scott to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Quak...Mariabella Fry John Gibson LockhartLife of ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisie Knew (1897), he rather thought that "she is my ver...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesWhat Maisie KnewPrint: Book


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