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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'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was his acquaintance with Joseph Blacket's poetry and f...George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph BlacketpoetryUnknown
1800-1849'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of "Robinson Crusoe", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels,...Christopher Thomson Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of "Robinson Crusoe", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels,...Christopher Thomson Peter LonguevilleThe hermit Philip QuarllPrint: Book
1800-1849'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of "Robinson Crusoe", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels,...Christopher Thomson Robert BoyleBoyle's TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pl...Christopher Thomson [unknown][religious tracts]Print: Book, Broadsheet, Pamphlet, tracts
1800-1849'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pl...Christopher Thomson [unknown][religious magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'On presenting ourselves at a little shop in the Market Place, a popular circulating library, the old spectacle-nosed keeper told us, that his invariable rule was, before...Christopher Thomson Thomas SkinnerSplendid miseryPrint: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson Matthew LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson John Milton[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson William Shakespeare[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson [Samuel?] Johnson[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson Laurence Sterne[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett's Register" and "Wooler's Black Dwarf" were the fir...Christopher Thomson William CobbettCobbett's political registerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett's Register" and "Wooler's Black Dwarf" were the fir...Christopher Thomson Thomas Jonathan WoolerBlack DwarfPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The "Penny Magazine" was published - I borrowed the first volume, and determined to make an effort to possess myself with the second; accordingly, with January 1833, I d...Christopher Thomson Charles KnightPenny MagazinePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after some talk, he promised to send him a Bible, "his honou...Isaac [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'] 'This accomplished, my next duties were to s...James Glass Bertram [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English magazines for Mr Tait's customers, as also a few copies...James Glass Bertram [unknown][various English periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English magazines for Mr Tait's customers, as also a few copies...James Glass Bertram [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Mr Girle wrote a history of his blue coat days, which he was anxious should appear in "Tait", and one day, at his request, I carried the MS to the warehouse, but it did ...G H Girle G H Girle[memoirs]Manuscript: Sheet, Unpublished memoirs


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