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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'How horrified my father was on discovering that the servants had been reading little bits to me out of "Lloyd's Weekly" [on a Sunday].'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lloyd's WeeklyPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Abraham Austin, carpenter and joiner, examined. I saw James... on Sunday morning again at my house, when he read the newspaper aloud about the murder and other things......James Hocker [n/a]Lloyd's Weekly London NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a... Lloyd's Weekly NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek n/aLloyd's Weekly NewsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Henry Mayhew's interview with a seller of street stationery: 'I read "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper" on a Sunday, and what murders and robberies there is now!' [n/a]Lloyd's Weekly NewspaperPrint: Newspaper
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper: "The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my family's dinner to the bakehouse, bring it home after ch...anon [n/a]Lloyd's Weekly NewspaperPrint: Broadsheet, Newspaper
1850-1899'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'Alfred and Emily Tennyson Llywarch HenPrint: Book
1850-1899W. Matthews, father of Harriet Martineau's maid Marianne Matthews, to Martineau's sister Susan: 'A short time before the receipt of your kind letter of yesterday I was st...W. Matthews Local newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899"One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although only familiar with verse in the local paper, Mitche...Hannah Mitchell local newspaper (including verse)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of strictly abbreviated nursery rhymes, there was the fa...Charles Causley Walter ScottLochinvarPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochleven and Life.'Dorothy Wordsworth Michael BruceLochlevenUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'Mary read Bruce.'Mary Hutchinson Michael BruceLochlevenPrint: Book
1850-1899'My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson. My mother, all agitated in defence of her idol, fetched his poems from the shelf, and with a "Li...Mary Thomas Alfred TennysonLocksley HallPrint: Book
1850-1899'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson, and my mother, all agitated in defence of her i...Mrs Hughes Alfred, Lord TennysonLocksley HallPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Elizabeth Boott 30 October 1878, on lunch that day with Tennyson at his home, : "He read out 'Locksley Hall' to me, in a kind of solemn, sonorous chant, an...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonLocksley HallUnknown
1850-1899From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the study [...] and I had him to myself for two or three...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonLocksley HallUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Florence Reynolds Alfred, Lord TennysonLocksley HallPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am going on with my reading of Shakespeare's historical plays, and yesterday I came on the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, and the death of Beaufort; and Tennyson...Fanny Allen Alfred, Lord TennysonLocksley HallPrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On October 27th, 1886, he read aloud to me that piece of almost too terrible beauty, the "Locksley Hall Si...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonLocksley Hall Sixty Years AfterUnknown
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu...Mary Smith Richard WhateleyLogicPrint: Book


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