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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'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'[Through the Women's Co-operative Guild, Deborah Smith] began reading poetry and, at age fifty one, discovered her own spiritual longings in Tennyson: Break, break, br...Deborah Smith Alfred Lord Tennyson'Break, break, break'Print: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'From a classroom library of perhaps two dozen volumes [Richard Hillyer] borrowed one by Tennyson, simply because it had 'Poet Laureate' printed on the title page: the co...Richard Hillyer Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1850-1899'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... S...Rose Macaulay Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1850-1899Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established custom [in 1880s-90s] ... by a very early age, Roy had l...James Elroy Flecker Alfred Lord TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Alfred Lord Tennyson[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political message "crashed into my mind, mixing together the ...G.A.W. Tomlinson Alfred Lord TennysonThe Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Alfred Lord TennysonThe PrincessPrint: Book
1850-1899'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter...Maud du Puy Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to hear Mr and Mrs Wigan read Tennyson and "the Rivals" at Apsley House'.Mr and Mrs WiganAlfred Lord TennysonunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".'George Eliot [pseud] Alfred Lord Tennyson[poems including 'The First Quarrel']Print: Book
1850-1899'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to...John Johnson Alfred MarshallPrinciples of EconomicsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Alfred Marshall[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies Alfred Marshall Print: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona...John Allaway Alfred Marshall Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1910, when Alfred Noyes's "Collected Poems" came out [...] [Charlotte Mew] read his "The Old Sceptic" and reflected that as far as sentiment went, she might have writ...Charlotte Mew Alfred Noyes"The Old Sceptic"Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Members of XII Book ClubAlfred Noyes Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Ursula Unwin Alfred Noyes Print: Book


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