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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
1900-1945		'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy...Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society MeredithunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy...Ladies' Edinburgh Debating SocietyWilliam WordsworthunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy...Ladies' Edinburgh Debating SocietyPercy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful wor...Rose Macaulay John Stuart Millprobably 'On Liberty'Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful wor...Rose Macaulay Ernest RenanLife of JesusPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Rev. Richard H. BarhamThe Ingoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Sir Walter ScottpoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'... [William Robertson Nicoll] devoured even more newspapers than books [had grown up with clergyman father's library of 17,000 volumes and had own library of 25,000 vol...William Robertson Nicoll newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...Mark Tellar Hugh ConwayCalled BackPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...Mark Tellar Fergus HumeThe Mystery of the Hansom CabPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...Mark Tellar Mary Braddon[stories]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...Mark Tellar Mrs Henry Wood[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...Mark Tellar Ouida [pseud][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		"[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, being fond of reading, including poetry: 'somehow he h...Willie anon Charles Mackay (ed)A Thousand and One Gems of English PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Bruce Cummings [who later wrote as W. N. P. Barbellion]'s use of the Encyclopedia Britannica: "He would simply think of a word ... look it up, and read the 'learned artic...Bruce Cummings Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive of illustrations ... [he] had already 'read whole v...Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chambers's EncyclopediaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Walt Whitman ... recalled in old age ... [having read The Heart of Midlothian] "a dozen times or more"'.Walt Whitman Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'"I owe more to Scott than to any other writer," [William] Robertson Nicoll stated. "Every year even in the busiest times I have read over his best stories."'William Robertson Nicoll Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book


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