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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
 
1800-1849While living in London, the tailor Thomas Carter 'made a habit of taking his breakfast at one of the coffee shops [...] on his way to work, where he would read the previo...Thomas Carter newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw "boys' books"Print: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw DickChristian PhilosopherPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockThe MessiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw PollockThe Course of TimePrint: Book
1800-1849'Thomas Wood, an apprentice mechanic, described the problems he faced [reading] in [...] dark evenings: "I had to read by firelight excepting when I could afford a 1/2d c...Thomas Wood  Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Samuel Bamford, warehouseman to a cloth printer in Manchester at the beginning of the [nineteenth] century, was able to make use of seasonal fluctuations in business to ...Samuel Bamford  Print: Book
1800-1849'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many opportunities of hearing much about him.'James Glass Bertram James HoggShepherd's CalendarPrint: Book
1800-1849'When I had made a few visits to him, Mr De Quincey was so kind as to take some particular notice of me; and afterwards when he wrote his Grasmere article about "George...Thomas de Quincey Thomas de QuinceyGeorge and Sarah GreenPrint: Serial / periodical, proofs
1800-1849'I have heard, too, that several workmen in shops adjacent to Sutherland's library arranged with him for a reading of "The Heart of Midlothian" and "Rob Roy", one of the ...workmenWalter ScottHeart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have heard, too, that several workmen in shops adjacent to Sutherland's library arranged with him for a reading of "The Heart of Midlothian" and "Rob Roy", one of the ...workmenWalter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", which contained in my young days "Jack Sheppard".'James Glass Bertram [n/a]Bentley's MiscellanyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavouring as I walked over the grass to read a story in ...James Glass Bertram Robert ChambersChambers's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", which contained in my young days "Jack Sheppard".'James Glass Bertram William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened a little. I then obtained access to a greater varie...James Glass Bertram Mrs JohnstoneThe SchoolmasterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849The nineteenth-century cabinet maker William Lovett on the development of his literary and intellectual interests after joining 'The Liberals', a literary and debating as...William Lovett texts on Christian religionPrint: Book
1800-1849James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of 1826, a friend made me a present of an old edition o...James Dawson Burn Chevalier RamsayLife of CyrusPrint: Book


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