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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'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery Bible, thePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery Godey's Lady's BookPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery [novels for adults]Print: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery History of the WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery [Christian books and missionary tracts]Print: Book, religious tracts
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Alexander Macneill BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Alexander Macneill [newspaper from Charlottetown]Print: Newspaper, Daily
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery anon Little Katey and Jolly JimPrint: Book
1800-1849'One day my [Harriet Martineau's] mother was distressed at finding in the "Times" a ribald song addressed to me.'Elizabeth Martineau anon"ribald" song about Harriet MartineauPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"...he...seized the Bible, and soon became absorbed in t...Barnholt Thomas Bible, The (Book of Esther)Print: Book
1900-1945'One day when drawing our parcels we received some little cardboard packets of compressed dates as usual, but this time a small white strip of paper was pasted on the out...Gerald Featherstone Knight [strip of paper]Print: Strip of paper bearing produce information
1900-1945'One day, alone for a moment in a girl's room in Lady Margaret Hall - she had gone to fetch a tea-pot from along the corridor - I saw that she had left her diary open, it...Ralph Glasser [unknown][a girl's diary]Manuscript: Codex
1700-1799'One Day, as I was in my Shop, a Gentleman, very richly dressed, told me, he had a Letter for me; I received it very respectfully, but could not help smiling, when I foun...Laetitia Pilkington Laetitia Pilkington[a love letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'One day, however, I made a discovery. I could read myself! I was four years old now... and while sprawling on the floor with a comic open at the pictures of Weary Willie...Jack Common [n/a][comic paper]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading persons in England. She read me some of them. They were ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Princess Caroline Princess of Wales [verbal sketches of well known people]Manuscript: MS book
1800-1849'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'Charles Manby Smith [n/a]MoniteurPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'One enthusiastic reader of "Land and Water" was the poet James Elroy Flecker, who, in the process of dying in a Swiss sanatorium, requested his parents to take out a sub...James Elroy Flecker anonLand and WaterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'One evening my father took down his Virgil from an upper shelf...And then, in the twilight, as he shut the volume at last, oblivious of my presence, he began to murmur a...Philip Gosse VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1900-1945'One Friday afternoon I went to the [italics] Daily Herald [end italics] office to call on a friend. As I entered the building a taxi stopped at the door and I found G....Gilbert Keith Chesterton Gilbert Keith ChestertonBackfile of his own articles published in the "Dai...Print: Newspaper


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