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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
1900-1945		'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t...Flora Thompson Royal ReaderPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t...Flora Thompson [history reader]Print: Book
1600-1699"In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to t...Elizabeth Baker ScripturesUnknown
1850-1899Ruskin on two American girls on train between Venice and Verona: "'...they had French novels, lemons, and lumps of sugar to beguile their state with; the novels hanging t...Female American travelling-companions French novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed that the Recreative Evening Homes were an alternative ... storiesPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'To counteract [Sunday School pupils' imitating bad deeds of children in children's storybooks] ... [M. C.] Mondy read the same books "and gave the early part of the afte...M. C. Mondy storiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... A Double ThreadPrint: Book
1800-1849Josephine Butler [nee Grey] remembered her mother's '[assembling] us daily for the reading aloud of some solid book ... by a kind of examination fllowing the reading alou...Grey Family  Print: Book
1850-1899'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-fo...Young Lady Aberdeen and under-butler  Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-fo...Young Lady Aberdeen and mother Mavor's spelling bookPrint: Book
1800-1849'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of the house lived in by her family [to read], in the ...Frances Mary Buss  
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole read early volumes of "The Girl's Own Paper" belonging to her mother (and found them dated and over-moralistic).'Margaret Cole The Girl's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma"'. History of MontezumaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on hydraulicsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on astronomyPrint: Book
1900-1945Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began to read French stories, those to which I returned mos...Enid Starkie French fictionPrint: Book
1900-1945"Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener Tom Houghton; sneaking into the kitchen to spirit aw...Ellen Clifford  Print: Book
1900-1945At first it was thought that Jeremy was deaf - but tests showed that his hearing was perfect. When the condition [dyslexia] was finally diagnosed his mother read to him ...Elizabeth Edith Huggins  Print: Unknown
1850-1899' ... [Dora Montefiore (b. 1851)] recalls her father's ... practice of looking up Shakespeare's views on any topic which came up in conversation in a Concordance ...' Concordance to ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and the "Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...'Margaret Cole and brothers Sexton BlakePrint: Unknown


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