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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
1800-1849		Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness in it; for God never forsakes those who turn to him....Ellen Weeton ['Psalms']Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		I have to attend to the direction of the House, the table &c, as well as literary studies; to assist in entertaining company in the parlour; and give directions to the se...Ellen Weeton [books on carving]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Miss R. staid 2 or 3 days withme; the rest of the time I was entirely alone, spending the time chiefly in reading and writing letters, until I had brought on an almost pe...Ellen Weeton [unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Has spent week repairing her brother's clothes] The week after that was as much occupied in copying some songs and the music belonging to them, which my brother had lent...Ellen Weeton [songs and music]Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		When I begin to enumerate the works I have read since I came to Dove's-Nest, I feel surprised that I should have read so few, and that the greater part of those few shoul...Ellen Weeton [novels]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w...Frederick Willis [penny dreadfuls]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate [penny dreadfuls about Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bil...Print: Book
'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot" with "some appreciation of style", enough to recog...George Acorn ['Penny Bloods']Print: Book
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt [dime novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to his work as a dialect poet: "I must confess that my...Ben Brierley [penny horror stories]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to his work as a dialect poet: "I must confess that my...Ben Brierley [penny fairy stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams The GemPrint: Serial / periodical, comic
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Magnet, ThePrint: Serial / periodical, comic
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams [Sexton Blake Stories]Print: Serial / periodical, comics
1450-1499Susan Schibanoff, "Taking the Gold out of Egypt: The Art of Reading as a Woman": "In 1473, Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, came across a French version of the Liber Philo...Anthony Woodville Earl Rivers Liber Philosophorum Moralium AntiquorumUnknown
1800-1849Recd from WM the Morning Herald of Friday, which pleased me to find him so attentive, to what he knows gives me satisfaction; I am now beforehand with the knowing ones I ...Robert Sharp The Morning HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849I see Lord Liverpool has been taken very ill, some of the farmers were so devoted as to say that providence has interfered so far as to put a stop to any alteration to th...Robert Sharp [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Saw in the Rockingham that seven of the Ministers have sent in their resignation - Amongst the rest the Lord, Chancellor...Robert Sharp Rockingham and Hull Weekly AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Newspaper from WM this morning... Also two Examiners the last week and this, so that I revel in news this day. The Old ministers seem very sore at losing or giving up the...Robert Sharp The Times OR The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Mr Nelson's estate which is advertised for sale in the Hull papers. I likewise saw it in The Times.Robert Sharp The TimesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper


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