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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
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first emp...Thomas Cooper  Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		'J. A. Leatherland clubbed together with some like-minded velvet weavers to purchase, "'Harris's Hermes', from which we gained some knowledge of the principles, elements ...Kettering velvet-weavers Harris's HermesPrint: Book
1800-1849The nineteenth-century cabinet maker William Lovett on the development of his literary and intellectual interests after joining 'The Liberals', a literary and debating as...William Lovett texts on Christian religionPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'William Dodd [...] exposed to the full impact of the [eighteenth/nineteenth-century] factory system, found that once he had begun to read books on "several branches of n...William Dodd  Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes the former agricultural labourer (and later trades union leader and M.P.) Joseph Arch's recollection in his memoir that, after work, '"I would stick l...Joseph Arch  Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of the Bible, I know not that I ever read any other bo...Thomas Carter The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849John Clare, writing in 1821, on his attempt to use a school primer to help improve his written English: '"Borrowing a school book of a companion having some entertaini...John Clare 'Spelling Book' (grammar)Print: Book
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman Ally Sloper's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman (nursemaid) and Mew children Christmas numbers of magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Every day [...] [Charlotte Mew] had to read a fixed number of pages from "Line Upon Line", a book which re-tells the Bible stories [for children]'.Charlotte Mew Line Upon LinePrint: Book
1900-1945'Alida [Klementaski] bought for thirty shillings a West Highland terrier which she had seen advertised in "Exchange and Mart".'Alida Klementaski Exchange and MartPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'...This morning I learnt (by reading it in the Globe) the sudden death of Lord Holland after a few hours' illness, and whom I left not a fortnight ago in his usual healt...Charles Greville GlobePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'...and this morning the Morning Chronicle puts forth an article having every appearance of being written by Palmerston himself (as I have no doubt it was) most violent, ...Charles Greville Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849?I read in the newspaper the day before yesterday an account of a lad brought up for not supporting his child. The father was fifteen or sixteen years old, the mother a...Charles Greville [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899?I could no longer stand the torrent of nonsense, violence and folly which the newspapers day after day poured forth, and resolved to write a letter which was published i...Charles Greville [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Talk and read the newspapers'.Percy Bysshe Shelley [newspapers]Print: Newspaper


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