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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'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he s...John Harris Henry Kirke WhiteThe Remains of Henry Kirke WhitePrint: Book
1800-1849'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he s...Mary Smith Henry Kirke WhiteThe Remains of Henry Kirke WhitePrint: Book
1800-1849'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he s...Thomas Carter Henry Kirke WhiteThe Remains of Henry Kirke WhitePrint: Book
1800-1849'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Paine's "Age of Reason", but remained unconvinced [by ...Joseph Gutteridge Voltaire Dictionary of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Paine's "Age of Reason", but remained unconvinced [by ...Joseph Gutteridge Thomas PaineThe Age of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849John Clare, writing in 1821, on his attempt to use a school primer to help improve his written English: '"Borrowing a school book of a companion having some entertaini...John Clare 'Spelling Book' (grammar)Print: Book
1800-1849'When William Lovett arrived in London [from Newlyn, in the 1820s] he possessed a Cornish accent but no useful knowledge, and immediately set about remedying these twin d...William Lovett Lindley MurrayGrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nothing to put down these last two days unless I go back to my old practice of recording what I read, and which I rather think I left off because I read nothing and had ...Charles Greville CiceroSecond PhilippicPrint: Book
1800-1849'...This morning I learnt (by reading it in the Globe) the sudden death of Lord Holland after a few hours' illness, and whom I left not a fortnight ago in his usual healt...Charles Greville GlobePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'...and this morning the Morning Chronicle puts forth an article having every appearance of being written by Palmerston himself (as I have no doubt it was) most violent, ...Charles Greville Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I gre...James Glass Bertram Samuel WarrenDiary of a late physicianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I gre...James Glass Bertram Samuel WarrenTen thousand a yearPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there seems to have been at first setting out. I cannot a...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir John MooreA Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in...Print: Book
1800-1849?I read in the newspaper the day before yesterday an account of a lad brought up for not supporting his child. The father was fifteen or sixteen years old, the mother a...Charles Greville [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849 'Then we write a part of the romance and read some Shakespears [sic]'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespearePlays including Richard III and King LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads aloud the letters from Norway'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftLetters written during a short residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley finishes Mary a fiction'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftMary, a fictionPrint: Book
1800-1849'We read Shakespeare'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Talk and read the newspapers'.Percy Bysshe Shelley [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Calls on Hookham and brings home Wordsworths Excursion of which we read a part - much disappointed - he is a slave'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William WordsworthThe Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, a p...Print: Unknown


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