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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29 August- 7 September 1796: 'Charles Collins wrote a Sonnet upon Hastings Castle — which Horace once showed me — it was ——— ...Robert Southey Charles CollinsOn Hastings CastleManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Wu notes that Charles Lamb copied stanzas 20-53 of Charles Cotton, Winter, in letter to Wordsworth of 5 March 1803.Charles Lamb Charles CottonWinterUnknown
1600-1699'calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty" - extraordinary good.'Samuel Pepys Charles CottonScarronides, or Virgile TravestyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles DallisonThe Royalist's DefencePrint: Book
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 Charles Darwin Print: Book
'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Charles DarwinThe Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the literary classics, as well as works on evolution by Dar...Ben Tillett Charles Darwin[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna...questionaire respondent Charles Darwin[probably 'The Voyage of the Beagle']Print: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1900-1945'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo...James Clunie Charles DarwinThe Descent of ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Charles Darwin[all works]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary subjects, and by the time she was fourteen was readi...Ellen Wilkinson and fatherCharles Darwin Print: Book
1900-1945'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'.William John Brown Charles Darwin[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It...John Masefield Charles DarwinThe Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'We began Darwin's work on "The Origin of Species" tonight. It seems not to be well written: though full of interesting matter, it is not impressive, for want of luminous...George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesCharles DarwinOrigin of Species, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'what I write for is to thank you again for sending me your brother's [Charles Darwin's] book. As for thanking him for the book itself, one might say "...Harriet Martineau Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selec...Print: Book
1900-1945'The conversation went on about Darwin's "Origin of species", and F. said to S. "tha doesn't favour a monkey, but tha acts like one." R. said "I think he's bloody cracker...Charles DarwinOrigin of speciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I bought Darwin's last book in despair, for I knew I could generally read Darwin, but it was a failure.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DarwinThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and AnimalsPrint: Book
1900-1945Marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages: 59, 208, 211, 256.Vernon Lee Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Se...Print: Book
1900-1945'My chief pleasure at the moment is Darwin's [italics] Voyage of the Beagle [end italics]... it is so fresh, so clear, so solid, so modest, so alive. When I read a book l...Antonia White Charles DarwinVoyage of the Beagle, ThePrint: Book


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