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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'... I find I have nothing to say that has not been already perfectly said and perfectly sung in Adelaide.'Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich von MatthisonAdelaidePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'... I have been idle, but rather too busy to write, our leisure hours being taken up with reading Sydney's "Memoirs".'Fanny Allen Sydney SmithSelections from the writings of the Rev. Sydney Sm...Print: Book
1900-1945'... I read seriously only on week-ends.... "Comus" being finished, its place was taken by Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" which I got half through. It is an amazing wor...Clive Staples Lewis Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1800-1849'... I took up a London paper, and the first object in it which struck my eye, was the death of Charles Lamb. I felt it as a friend of the deceased for, although I had ne...John Cole anonnewspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'... I took up a volume with the uncompromising title My Past by a Countess Marie Larisch... T. S. Eliot was certainly one who read it, and before he wrote The Waste Land...T. S. Eliot Marie LarischMy PastPrint: Book
1800-1849'... I was too severe on Newman ... There are many striking, wise and good things in the first part of his book, so that the latter falls on you with the shock of a sh...Jessie Sismondi Francis William NewmanThe SoulPrint: Book
1800-1849'... in 1811 S[ara] H[utchinson] mentioned that Herbert Southey "can read Robinson Crusoe or any Book".'Herbert Southey Daniel DefoeLife and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by...Print: Book
1700-1799'... it is his son that is the Rev. Henry Harrington who published those very curious, entertaining & valuable remains of his Ancestor under the Title "Nugae Antiquae", w...Frances Burney Henry HarringtonNugae AntiquaePrint: Book
1850-1899'... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...'King Kalakava Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Unknown
1700-1799'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'John Clare CinderellaPrint: Book
1700-1799'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'John Clare Little Red Riding HoodPrint: Book
1700-1799'... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".'John Clare Jack and the BeanstalkPrint: Book
1850-1899'... my mother would read aloud to me. I particularly associate Cowper's ''Winter Walk at Noon'' with these readings. Cowper was a great favourite with her — both h...Emma Darwin William CowperThe Task, Book VI, Winter Walk at NoonPrint: Book
1850-1899'... my mother would read aloud to me. I particularly associate Cowper's ''Winter Walk at Noon'' with these readings. Cowper was a great favourite with her — both h...Henrietta Darwin William CowperThe Task, Book VI, Winter Walk at NoonPrint: Book
1800-1849'... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very little inclination to unpack or dress myself, but seei...John Marsh [n/a][local newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'... nothing much to do all morning, except for a fairly short stay at General Quarters. There was nothing for me to do at all in the afternoon, so I simply sat in ...Leslie Richard Romer Anon Anon[unknown]
1850-1899'... Oliver Twist (1838), the first Dickens that A. A. Milne was exposed to, at 9, gave him nightmares.'Alan Alexander Milne Charles DickensOliver TwistPrint: Book
1900-1945'... only paper I read is the New Statesman once a week, this gives me condensed news of the week, is worth reading because it is well written and gives some food for tho... New StatemanPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'... read Fortune by Sea and Land written by Tho, Heywood W. Rowley It is so sweet'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Heywood and William RowleyFortune by Land and SeaPrint: Book
1850-1899'... read a good bit from C Age ...'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]The Christian AgePrint: Newspaper


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