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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		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke Seven wise mastersPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke Chinese talesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke Parismos and ParismenesPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke The History of Captain FreneyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		J. R. R. Adams quotes at length from William Carleton's account (in his autobiography) of first reading Amoranda, or the reformed coquette, when young, "'the first thing ...William Carleton Amoranda, or the reformed coquettePrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849"In Holywood at the time of the peninsular war 'several would join to buy a number of the Belfast News-letter or of the Commercial Chronicle; or, through the kindness of ...people of Holywood, Ulster newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c.1868) read the merchandise [mainly popular song and...Seamus MacManus popular chapbooksPrint: Book
1900-1945'On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past. His old friend George Sturt was dead.'Arnold Bennett  Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'She complains in her letters that she cannot get through them [French and Spanish books to review in 'The Times', the 'Pall Mall Gazaette' etc] quickly enough. "Three ...Mary Augusta Ward [French and Spanish books]Print: Book
1900-1945'Bennett had seen a placard announcing its publication in Cassell's "Storyteller" magazine on Victoria Station just before his departure for Sicily in April.'Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement, Poster
1900-1945'Bennett, Dorothy, and the Board of Sloane Productions Ltd read all the notices the next day and found them satisfactory.'Arnold Bennett  Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New Testament the more impossible it seems to me to accept what is ordinarily called th...Mary Augusta Ward New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield [classics in original languages]Print: Book
1700-1799'This day made an end of instructing Miss Day. Read part of "The Spectator"; prodigiously admire the beauties pointed out in the eighth book of Milton's "Paradise Lost" b...Thomas Turner The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'At home all day a-writing. In the even read "The Universal Magazine" for December; think the following observations worth notice: [lists several observations from the ma...Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and PleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Not at church all day, neither looked in any book all day except "The Tatler".'Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", in which I find some very agreeable stories, in particular one wherein a beautiful and virtuous young lady is ru...Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", which I think the oftener I read the better I like it. I think I never found the vice of drinking so well explod...Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Came home about 7 o'clock; read several numbers in the 4th volume of "The Tatler".'Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'My wife read the 20th and 21st numbers of "The Guardian" to me, which I think extremely good, the first of which shows how indispensable a duty forgiveness is and the la...Peggy Turner The GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical


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