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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' ... in November 1876, when a guest of Gladstone at Hawarden, Tennyson read the whole of his new play, "Harold" (1877) ... The marathon session began at 11.30 and contin...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonHaroldUnknown
1900-1945' ... it is raining slightly ... I have almost finished Twelfth Night. Yesterday I saw [Albert] Ball. I asked him how many Boches he had shot down. He said he didnt...Maurice Baring William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book
1700-1799' ... James Losh reported in his diary for 4 Sept 1800 that Madoc "is ready for publication ... Southey showed me about two years ago two books of this poem which I admir...James Losh Robert SoutheyMadocManuscript: Unknown
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1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... Jean Curtis Brown and her friend Lucy [consumed] the forbidden magazine "Home Chat", borrowed from the kitchen on the cook's night out.'Jean Curtis Brown and friend Home ChatPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899' ... read a good deal from C Age - also some chapters in the Book of Cronicles [sic] ...'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]The Christian AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899' ... read a good deal from C Age - also some chapters in the Book of Cronicles [sic] ...'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Chronicles)Print: Book
1850-1899' ... read some papers to the old man ...'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]
1800-1849' ... the first three stanzas and two concluding stanzas of [Thoms] Campbell's poem [The Exile of Erin] were copied and pasted by S[ara] H[utchinson] into the Wordsworth ...Sara Hutchinson Thomas CampbellExile of Erin, TheUnknown
1850-1899' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi...William Ewart Gladstone Thomas Hardy Print: Unknown
1850-1899' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi...William Ewart Gladstone Emile Zola Print: Book
1900-1945' ... this is being written in a cellar which is my present billet. The house which stood overhead was rendered a ruin a long time ago and the bricks etc make a thi...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Continental Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899' ... went to see the old man and read the newspaper to him ...'James Bennetts Williams Anon Anon[unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... when ... [Amy Barlow's] brother-in-law caught her sniffing over ... [Ethel Voynich, "The Gadfly" (1897)], he began to weep in [mock] sympathy.'Amy Barlow Ethel VoynichThe GadflyPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be read. Probably a somewhat superior Mrs Humphry Ward...Arnold Bennett Edith WhartonThe House of MirthPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... when stuck in '" dismal dirty inn at Halifax" in Yorkshire during his lecture tour in 1857, ... [Thackeray] made himself comfortable by reading and "pleasant talk a...William Makepeace Thackeray unknownunknownUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard John MiltonSonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard William CowperpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard Washington IrvingOrationsPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
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


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