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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
 
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Charles Dickens Print: Book
1800-1849I am glad you like The Black Veil. I think that the title is a good one, because it is uncommon, and does not impair the interest of the story by partially explaining its...John Macrone Charles DickensThe Black VeilPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled that, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East ...George Acorn Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum kn...Arthur Harding Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum kn...Arthur Harding Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1900-1945Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": " ... some of ... [Dickens's readers] found it difficult to share his anguis...Charles DickensA Christmas CarolPrint: Book
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 Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i...Neville Cardus Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,...Joseph Toole Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefield's debt to William Morris as a constructive think...John Masefield Charles Dickens Print: Book
1850-1899'[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Pr...Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which ...Gwen Raverat Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Charles DickensPickwick Papers, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Charles DickensChristmas Carol, APrint: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rudolph Lehmann Charles Dickens Print: Book
1850-1899?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no...Thomas Catling Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing houseCharles Dickens[works]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, presumably Dickens's fiction and journals
1850-1899?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the members. Thackeray?s "Virginians" and Dickens?s "Litt...William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times'Charles DickensLittle DorrittPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunt...George Eliot (pseud) Charles DickensThe Haunted ManPrint: Unknown, could have been book or serial


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