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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
 
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell pamphletsPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell The TimesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945From letter to Eleanor M. Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], written by 'M.H.', a former pupil of Elizabeth Sewell'...M. H. The GentlewomanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'Among many casual instanc... Visitors' book, Lollards' Tower, LambethPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'Miss Sewell's arduous life-...Elizabeth Missing Sewell The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Have you seen anything of the Broadway: I rather like it.'Robert Louis Stevenson BroadwayPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It being Sunday, we read prayers from a Bible and a Prayer Book that were picked up on the field at Bhoodkhak. The service was scarcely finished when a clannish row comm...Florentia Sale Bible and Prayer BookPrint: Book
1850-1899One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'Lynch? Lynch?' The name was jotted down in a notebook...Robert Louis Stevenson Dashing Kate, the Female DetectivePrint: Book
1700-1799'Whenever I read in St Paul's Epistle on justification by faith alone, my good mistress would read in the Epistle of St James, such passages as say that a man is not just...James Lackington BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I often privately took the Bible to bed with me, and in the long summer mornings read for hours together in bed'.James Lackington BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have the Daily Mail and the News of the World for sport. They're getting a bit better than they were, but they're still a bit poor. Yes, I should like to see more spor... Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have the Daily Mail and the News of the World for sport. They're getting a bit better than they were, but they're still a bit poor. Yes, I should like to see more spor... News of the worldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Well, I've only read the Telegraph, and I don't like it. Everything is contradicted later.' TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799"The following remarks made by the compilers of the Monthy Review for 1788, page 286, are so applicable to the present subject, that I hope my introducing the passage wil...James Lackington Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I slept a little and next morning being Friday amused myself in bed with the Times, the Daily Herald, the New Statesman and Nation, the Times Literary Supplement (which ...Cyril Lionel Robert James newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspapers.' newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspapers.' leafletsPrint: Advertisement
1900-1945'She goes on: "I read the advertisements stating margarine's superiority to butter with a quiet smile, and a mental thought of 'I don't think!' I think my sales-resistanc... advertisements about margarinePrint: Advertisement
1900-1945'My personal opinion of margarine has quite changed owing to the arrival of this questionnaire. My mother opened it by mistake, but finding it was not of a private nature... questionnaire about margarinePrint: Broadsheet, Questionnaire / survey sheet


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