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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
 
Charles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I asked her what it was. "Oh," she replied, "It's Maggie"...Charles Garvice Stephen CraneMaggie: A Girl of the StreetsPrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Detailed reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's Magia Adamica (1650). Edward Pordage Thomas VaughanMagia Adamica. Or the Antiquity of Magic, And the ...Print: Book
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 Lady Eleanor SmithMagic LanternPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cotton MatherMagnalia Christi AmericanaPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Magnet, ThePrint: Serial / periodical, comic
1900-1945'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means exhausted them yet. ?Mahatma Gandhi? I am reading at...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownMahatma GandhiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 10th Canto of Ariosto - the Mahomet of Voltaire'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]MahometPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I find even with myself coming to London occasionally only as I do now, that I really take...William Edward Hickson Maidstone GazettePrint: Newspaper
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 George Bernard ShawMajor BarbaraPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding George Bernard ShawMajor BarbaraPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and who sent back to him at once a letter of four pages sa...William Ewart Gladstone Margaret OliphantMakers of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Your good letter arrived yesterday--a great pleasure and a source of serious misgivings. I have had your latest volume and surely I acknowledged it! [...] You mean "Mono...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordMalayan MonochromesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 April 1763:] 'I am rather scandalized that you should even ask how I like the Malincolia d'Alcindo, which is beautiful in the ...Elizabeth Carter Carlo MaggiMalincolia d'AlicinoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st...Chaim Lewis George Bernard ShawMan and SupermanPrint: 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 George Bernard ShawMan and SupermanPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his work. H.M. Wallis gave a reading from "The Doctor's...Frederick Edminson, Percy Kaye & Walter RowntreeGeorge Bernard ShawMan and SupermanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tues. Received letter from no one[.] Damnation[.] Reading Man & Superman by Bernard Shaw.'William Thomas George Bernard ShawMan and SupermanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wed. Nil. Marriage is popular because it combines the maxm of temptation with the maxm of opportunity.'William Thomas George Bernard ShawMan and SupermanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Got up about 7A.M. had some tea & commenced to read. I read a Christian Age & some from a book by Thos Guthrie, 'Man & the Gospel' which I enjoy very much. I then ...James Bennetts Williams Thomas GuthrieMan and the GospelPrint: Book
1800-1849'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'.Mary Godwin Robert BageMan as He Is. A NovelPrint: Book


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