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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'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew on...Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1700-1799'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew on...Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew on...Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar] "These two or three pages are worth the whole Fren...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch's narrative. But the working up of Brutus by Cassiu...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nights" in Julius Caesar] "Plutarch's hint is admirably...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare rea...Shakespeare Reading Circle (local)William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899"It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prep...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine style of this play and its vigorous moderation compar...George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1900-1945'When, a year or two later, we read "Julius Caesar" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it very funny, but I recognised its authenticity. Shak...Norman Nicholson William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able t...Albert Battiscombe William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Julius Caesar'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec 2nd. [...] Read Julius Caesar of Shakespeare.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Three days ago I would have been contented to buy this consola as Judy says, dearer than by a dozen falls in the mud - for had the great Constable fallen O my country...Walter Scott William ShakespeareJulius CaesarUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Harrison CadyJungle JinksPrint: Book
1800-1849'After reading Junius identified with a living character I am pretty well satisfied that Sir P. Francis was the man.'Benjamin Newton John TaylorJunius identified or the identity of JuniusPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Sean O'CaseyJuno and the PaycockPrint: Book


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