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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'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Lands, Wilberforce Stephen (as was to be expected) is At...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Club. In the Evening Herald there was a startling telegram from Ballaarat announcing that [six prisoners had effected their escape?] from Ballaarat Gaol'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'With little formal education, William Farish acquired basic literacy and political knowledge by reading newspapers to Newtown weavers. (Their favourite was the tri-weekl...William Farish Evening MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short stories. Reads big news items, but prefers to get them fro... Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Reads Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Likes best any sort of outspoken article that's exposing anything, and sport. Reason:' tickles me, I suppose.' Spends most ti... Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'During the second week of the battle, a Letter reader sent me from that day's Evening News a clipping which contained only two headlines: CHILDREN SEE GERMANS DIE. "C'...Vera Brittain Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In front of the fire, the little plump cook read the evening paper aloud to the housemaid. "'The Queen is now asleep,'" she quoted in sepulchral tones, while I, absorb...anon [a cook] evening paperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'News from the front there was none. No one knew where the front was. The "Evening Paper," a single sheet, printed in large characters on one side only, confined itself t...Ian Vivian Hay Evening Paper, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Mrs Hemans. Evening Prayer at a girls school' [transcribes text]Augusta Browne F.D. HemansEvening Prayer at a Girl's SchoolUnknown
1900-1945'On Monday, January 15, saw an Evening Standard placard with the words, "Hitler Will March, says Paris". But in the Star the same evening was a summary of an article by P... Evening StandardPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945 In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Su...Arnold Bennett Bruce LockhartEvening StandardPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'By 1944 Lord Lang, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was supporting the persistent protests of the Bishop of Chichester in the House of Lords, and the ageing Dean Ing...Vera Brittain Evening StandardPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney Evening StandardPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose/ Is drooping for thy sigh of dew/ The Hyacinth woos...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine George CrolyEvening's daughterPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'"The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention and vigilance, but the exercise in narration is a su...John Ruskin John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1800-1849'I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in "Evenings at Home" of the Transmigrations of Indur, the Discontented Squirrel, the Trave...John Ruskin John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1800-1849[footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error respecting manufacture and industry ads rivalsto Art...John Ruskin John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799[Half a page in praise of Evenings, beginning:] 'No one can be so injudicious, or so unjust, as to class the excellent "Evenings at Home" amongst books of mere entertainm...Maria Edgeworth John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathetic passages, and natural dialogues in "Evenings at H...[ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799'Several children, who were reading "Evenings at Home", observed that in the story of Juliet and the fairy order...' [ the children comment on the story].[ a group of children known to Maria EdgeworthJohn AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book


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