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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
 
1700-1799'S----was reading in "Evenings at Home" the story of "A Friend in need is a Friend Indeed" ...[when he commented on the word choice in a certain sentence].'John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799'There is a slight attempt at the kind of composition we mean, in a little trial in "Evenings at Home"; and we have seen children read it with great avidity.'[children known to Maria Edgeworth]John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter from Maria Edgeworth to A.L.Barbauld, dated 26/2/1806, tells about this younger brother, who has just left the 'College of Dublin' and 'he has just finished a poem...C.S. Edgeworth John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
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1800-1849		'It would be well if both tales and books werwe always calculated to ... In the "Evenings at Home", or "Juvenile Budget", all this appears to be effected in it's utmost e...Elizabeth Hamilton John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear boys, when I was your age, there were no such children's books as ther are now...Now, among those very stupid old-fashioned boy's books was one which taught me [...Charles Kingsley John AikinEvenings at homePrint: Book
1800-1849'...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, under the title of "Eyes and No Eyes", which some of my...John Ruskin John AikinEvenings at homePrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday. rose at 8, O'Clock, came to Po [Agnes Porter, governess], turned the Hour Glass and played with it.- read my Journal of Sepr 5, 1805, that you wrote for ...William Henry Fox Talbot John AikinEvenings at Home, Or, the Juvenile Budget OpenedPrint: Book
1700-1799'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin and Mrs Brabauld.Joseph Hunter John AikinEvenings at home; or the Juvenile Budget OpenedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Life of Voltaire - & Evenings at home'Mary Shelley Anna Laetitia BarbauldEvenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget OpenedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday [...] Decbr. 5th. [...] read Evenings at Home with John.' [also records reading this text on 6 December 1825].Claire Clairmont John Aikin and Anna Letitia BarbauldEvenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget OpenedPrint: Book
1850-1899"'Every Day?s News', the last Pseudonym, contains this passage:??Literature was to him passion & a torment. . . . the author of this book evidently knows his character in...Arnold Bennett C.E. FrancisEvery Day's NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'and then went home and read a piece of a play (Every Man in his Humour, wherein is the greatest propriety of speech that ever I read in my life); and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'walk with S. - he reads Every Man in his humour aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1700-1799'Cob was once the general name the general English Word I mean for a Spider, Cobweb is still left from this Root, & I believe when Ben Jonson wrote Every Man in his Humou...Hester Lynch Thrale Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 3 July 1830: 'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every day Book and with a better opinion of him than I ex...Walter Scott William HoneEvery-Day Book and Table Book: or Everlasting Cale...Print: Book
1900-1945'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Everyman magazine with "opening up an entirely new set...James Murray EverymanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with some illustrative readings from one or two of the earl...Ursula Unwin anon.EverymanPrint: Book
1800-1849'His last works were Spiritual hymns and which he wrote very well. In his own line of Society he was said to exhibit infinite humour but all his works are grave and pens...Walter Scott Ben JonsonEveryman in his HumourUnknown


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