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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
 
1900-1945'[W.L. George] wrote a good little book on modern France. This is all I know of his work, except newspaper articles.' Arnold Bennett W.L. George Print: Book
1900-1945'If Machen?s onslaught is worse than Jimmy Douglas?s in the ?Star?, it will be a treat.' Arnold Bennett James Douglas Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed ...Mary Wollstonecraft William Cowper Print: Book
1900-1945'On Saturday I saw for the first time an advertisement of this book, [Lilian] which I suppose has been out for quite a month.' Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement
1850-1899'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.'George Eliot [pseud] 'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes  Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P...Robert Southey Pythagoras Print: Book
1850-1899'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History ...George Eliot and G.H. LewesPierre Jean de Beranger Print: Book
1850-1899'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.George Henry Lewes William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies Christopher Marlowe Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...[Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea...Mary Augusta ward Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson John Milton Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849'Thomas Wood, an apprentice mechanic, described the problems he faced [reading] in [...] dark evenings: "I had to read by firelight excepting when I could afford a 1/2d c...Thomas Wood  Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Samuel Bamford, warehouseman to a cloth printer in Manchester at the beginning of the [nineteenth] century, was able to make use of seasonal fluctuations in business to ...Samuel Bamford  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The anonymous Stonemason [author of "Reminiscences of a Stonemason, By a Working Man" (London, 1848)] [...] employed as a roundsman, taught his horse the route and ther...  Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Book


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