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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		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...'Margaret Cole and brothers The MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
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 boys' school storiesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): 'When I was a girl I was passionately fond of reading ... I went to stay with a friend in the country, who had by some means o...Phyllis Browne miscellaneous novelsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... 'Dorothea Beale and mother historyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... 'Dorothea Beale and mother general literaturePrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ...Dorothea Beale historyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ...Dorothea Beale The Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ...Dorothea Beale The Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ...Dorothea Beale Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton gift booksPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton texts on religionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton historical studiesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton modern novelsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
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'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...' Mary St Leger Harrison philosophical textsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...'Mary St Leger Harrison poetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley The Arabian NightsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'George Douglas Campbell poetry
1800-1849
1850-1899		'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower poetry
1850-1899' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'William Ewart Gladstone Latin textsPrint: Book


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