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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		"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame school teacher, 'as to be able to make out the contents ...Joseph Gutteridge newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame school teacher, 'as to be able to make out the contents ...Joseph Gutteridge public house and shop signsManuscript: Signboard
1700-1799
1800-1849		"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under the shadow of the trees and read about the Centurion,...Alexander Somerville  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under the shadow of the trees and read about the Centurion,...Alexander Somerville  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under the shadow of the trees and read about the Centurion,...Alexander Somerville  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare CinderellaPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare Little Red Riding HoodPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare Jack and the BeanstalkPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare Zig ZagPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare Prince CherryPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...James Watson notice of political meetingPrint: Poster
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...Members of Radical Reform group The Black DwarfPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...Members of Radical Reform group The RepublicanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...Members of Radical Reform group The Political RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699"Writing about himself in the third person, Robert Boyle ... blamed his short attention span on poor reading habits: he complained that reading a romance as a boy had 'ac...Robert Boyle romancePrint: Unknown
1600-1699" ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by ...William Dowsing booksPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by ...William Dowsing sermonsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Peter J. Manning, "Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829": "Charles Lamb, perusing the notices blazoning the annuals forthcoming in 1829, scoffed: 'Wordsworth I see has a good...Charles Lamb literary advertisementsPrint: Unknown
1500-1599
1600-1699		" ... [John] Donne describes his 'poor Library, where to cast mine eye upon good Authors kindles or refreshes sometimes meditations not unfit to communicate to near frien...John Donne various textsUnknown
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Bible, thePrint: Book


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