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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
1850-1899		"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The...Marianne Farningham poem on family BiblePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		"... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union's magazines, at the incessant stories of poor boys w...Marianne Farningham Sunday School Union magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Charlotte M. Yonge, apprehensive that mothers in the 1890s were paying insufficient attention to what their daughters got up to on Sundays, regretted that children were ...Young Lady Augustus Stanley and sister The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"A. Maude Royden, whilst at Lady Margaret Hall, became immersed in Tractarianism, and she read her way through the five volumes of the life of Edward Bouverie Pusey."A. Maude Royden life of Edward Bouverie PuseyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley The ClarionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley Merrry EnglandPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley God and My NeighbourPrint: Unknown
1850-1899"The suffragette, Annie Kenney (b.1879), looking back to her girlhood working in a Lancashire factory recalls ... going shares in a weekly girls' paper, 'full of wild rom...Annie Kenney and co-workers weekly girls' paperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell theological worksPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell early Methodist magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell cookery booksPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell crime/horror fictionPrint: Book
1850-1899"One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although only familiar with verse in the local paper, Mitche...Hannah Mitchell local newspaper (including verse)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by books read at a well-stocked bookstall which she passed ...Hannah Mitchell library booksPrint: Book
1850-1899While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by books read at a well-stocked bookstall which she passed ...Hannah Mitchell bookstall stockPrint: Book
1850-1899" ... [Mrs Layton (b. 1855)] remembers, when she was in service, and about sixteen, being lent some 'trashy books' by the servant next door: narratives which came out in ...Mrs Layton popular serial fictionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899In one place in which she worked as a servant, where "Mrs Layton's" reading approved of: "she became particularly keen on reading travel literature ..."Mrs Layton travel writingPrint: Unknown
1850-1899"[Jessie] Boucherett (b. 1825) ... 'one day ... caught sight, on a railway bookstall, of a number of the Englishwoman's Journal. She bought it, attracted by the title, b...Jessie Boucherett The Englishwoman's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849" ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and their own teacher, used to read them: 'the Bible, the Ar...James Buchanan The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849" ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and their own teacher, used to read them: 'the Bible, the Ar...James Buchanan The Arabian NightsPrint: Book


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