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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'The " [Ivory] Apes and Peacocks" book is good and immensely characteristic of our extremely "alive" friend.' Hence follow five more lines of praise. Joseph Conrad J.(James) G.(Gibbons) HunekerIvory Apes and PeacocksPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 June 1843: 'My idea of [italics]V[ed italics] has always been .. a clever woman, whose vocation it is not, to write poe...Elizabeth Barrett V IX Poems by V. (extracts)Print: Unknown
1900-1945'After Lights Out, Bayley reads a poem - anonymous. "J'y suis, j'y reste" about the war in Malaya. It is good and comprehensive. I disagree with the part, which mentions ...Thomas Kitching anon.J'y suis, J'y resteUnknown
1900-1945[on bike, visiting friends] 'Learnt "Jabberwocky" on the way! Passers by must have thought me mad, book in one hand, bike handle in other, sailing down hill saying in lou...Hilary Spalding Lewis CarrollJabberwockyPrint: Book
1850-1899'He was reading at the time Daudet's "Jack", which immensely fascinated him, though he found it "trop chargé" — as who should say, too harrowing.'Joseph Conrad Alphonse DaudetJackPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...Samuel Bamford anonJack and the Bean StalkPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was the pleasure, pain or surprise increased by allowing t...John Clare Jack and the BeanstalkPrint: Book
1700-1799'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'John Clare Jack and the BeanstalkPrint: 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 Jack and the BeanstalkPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gr...George Gregory Jack and The OstrichPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a paragraph from 'T. Hooke, Jack Bragg', beginning, 'The certain Nobodies, who happen to have fine h...Theodore HookeJack BraggPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 22nd June ?Jack Hamlin?s Mediation?etc.. (Bret Harte) Wednesday 23rd June A quiet day today and then last thing, neurotic attack. Went and joined the Library...Gerald Moore Bret HarteJack Hamlin's MediationPrint: Book
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey Bracebridge HemyngJack HarkawayPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also read the book reviews in "John O' London's". Quite of... [n/a]Jack O' LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age: "Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin, and all through that set. They were large...anon William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse: "I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three volumes; and I used to tell stories out of that some...anon William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar...anon William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a...anon William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume
1800-1849Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a...group of London thievesWilliam Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, either as penny numbers or in volume
1800-1849Statement of a juvenile offender: "I have been twice in prison. I was only in Liverpool two days. I came from Manchester to the races; I had no work. I have been at al...H.T. William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, read as numbers or volume?


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