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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
 
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar ...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][French pocket dictionary]Print: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar ...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar ...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]TelemaquePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French newspapers, which I now began to peruse, not without...Charles Manby Smith [n/a][newspaper advertisements]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'Charles Manby Smith [n/a]MoniteurPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'His plan was to make use of me as a talking dictionary and grammar, confining my teachings exclusively to the answering of such questions as he thought fit to put. Havin...Oliver GoldsmithVicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1800-1849"'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking at the door, ... flung a paid letter on the path. Pat...Charles Manby Smith Dr D of Prospect Villa [letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'One morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking at the door, ... flung a paid letter on the path. Pat...Mrs Smith Dr D of Prospect Villa [letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with madam - sometimes I read aloud from some work of hist...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'By the middle of March 1831, I had completed the first volume, amounting to above f...Charles Manby Smith Dr D[manuscript of his book]Manuscript: manuscript of book
1800-1849'"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and leaders aloud for the benefit of the rest. When it cam...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible and the worn-out ... prayer-book, and the ... voice o... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible and the worn-out ... prayer-book, and the ... voice o... [unknown][prayer book]Print: Book
1800-1849'I got my [first] peep into "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Arabian Nights" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even though these two wonderful books have been read and e...William Tinsley Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I got my [first] peep into "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Arabian Nights" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even though these two wonderful books have been read and e...William Tinsley anonArabian NightsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My excellent mother had a fair education - at all events she could read and write fairly well - and she was often asked to read and write letters for neighbours who coul...Sarah Tinsley [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'My uncle and some others were subscribers to The Weekly Dispatch, each of the subscribers agreeing as to the time and days they were to have the paper read.'villagers of South Mimms [n/a]The Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow...Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict SaussureVoyage dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow...Thomas Carlyle Jean Baptiste BiotTraite de PhysiquePrint: Book
1800-1849'I always hated Gay's Fables, and for long could not abide a red book.'Harriet Martineau John GayGay's FablesPrint: Book


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