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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 24 December 1801: 'We sate comfortably round the fire in the Evening, and read Chaucer.'Wordsworth FamilyGeoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 26 December 1801: 'After tea we sate by the fire comfortably. I read aloud The Miller's Tale.'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Miller's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 30 October 1802: '... [William Wordsworth and Stoddart] surprized us by their arrival at four o'clock in the afternoon ... after te...?John Stoddart Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Mary read the Prologue to Chaucer's tales to me in the morning.'Mary Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerPrologue to The Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Before tea I sate 2 hours in the parlour. Read part of The Knight's Tale with exquisite delight.'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899"H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...H. M. Swanwick Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1850-1899'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w...Frederick Willis Geoffrey Chaucer Print: 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 Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th...George Howell Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite...Allen Clarke Geoffrey Chaucer[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield Geoffrey ChaucerThe Parliament of FowlsPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.George Darwin Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1900-1945'I did "The Knightes Tale" all my prep. time and like it'.Hilary Spalding Geoffrey ChaucerKnight's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."Hilary Spalding Geoffrey ChaucerKnight's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer's Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds see...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Geoffrey Chaucer[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'.George Eliot [pseud] Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, ThePrint: Book
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1600-1699		Extracted by G. C. Moore Smith from J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, "Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet"(1879): 'There was once in existence a copy of Speght's edition of Chau...Gabriel Harvey Geoffrey ChaucerWorksPrint: Book


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