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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
 
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria E...John Wilson Croker Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria E...John Wilson Croker Charlotte Smith Print: Book
1800-1849'Homer I adore as more than human and I never read Popes fine translation without feeling exalted above my self'.Elizabeth Barrett Homer  Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics...Elizabeth Barrett Anthony Collins Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics...Elizabeth Barrett Martin Luther Print: Book
1800-1849'All the mob of Potton made a great riot to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill, and paraded the town with the most hideous yells, accompanying a triumphal car in th...Emily Shore  Print: flags
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been reading William James on this very point - the worth ...Mary Augusta Ward William James Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'Over the pages of the philosophic Tacitus the hours of study pass rapidly as even those which ...Robert Southey Heraclitus 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 Homer Print: Book
1850-189914 June 1853: 'Another lovely morning, Euclid tilll 8.'Lady Charlotte Guest Euclid  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Huxtable Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Virgil  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Mechi Print: Book
1800-1849'I mean to copy you out some lines of my [italics] hero [end italics], Mr Kingsley'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Kingsley Print: Book
1900-1945'[whilst Mrs Ward suffered her last illness] her son and her daughters took turns in reading to her the poets that she loved'.Mary Augusta Ward  Print: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from her short nights - for her hours of sleep were rare...Mary Augusta Ward  Print: Book
1850-1899'As if she had not already enough to occupy her mind [with business and legal affairs following her first husband's death in November 1852] Lady Charlotte now suddenly de...Lady Charlotte and Ivor GuestEuclid  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Xenophon  Print: Book
1850-18995 March 1853: 'At 6 I went down again to the [workmen's] Room and to my surprise found the library finished and furnished, the refreshments all about and everything lo...Dowlais Iron Company workers  Print: Newspaper
1850-189919 March 1853: 'I turned into the workmen's Room for a moment [...] About a dozen men were enjoying the smoking room. Maria [Lady Charlotte's daughter] counted 50 in t...Dowlais Iron Company workers  Print: Book


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