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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
 
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...Patricia Beer Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's "Poverty" and a basic economics...questionaire respondent Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)'Constance Smedley Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": " [Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alcott after having picked up at a seaside bookshop ...Melvyn Bragg Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Mary S. Stansfield Louisa AlcottLittle Women Print: Book
1900-1945'I could begin to read one of the books that had been given to me ... and lose myself in another world. [Followed by a list of the books enjoyed].'Eileen Lawrence Louisa May AlcottLittle Women
1900-1945'To the Poolites each week comes a packet containing two Pool coupons (one to pass on to a friend) and the current issue of "Littlewood's Sports Log", which is very inter... Littlewood's Sports LogPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this morning?s Liverpool Post. I am amazed to note how h...Gerald Moore Liverpool PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.'Dorothy Wordsworth PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'.Thomas Babington Macaulay PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....Charles Spencer Chaplin PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'S read Plutarch's lives.'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Pu...Percy Bysshe Shelley PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Sarah Harriet Burney PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The conception of this particular novel ["Riceyman Steps"] was probably sparked off by the discovery, in an old Southampton bookshop, T. James and Co., of 34 Bernard Str...Arnold Bennett F. Sommer MerryweatherLives and Anecdotes of MisersPrint: Book


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