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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		'It made me think of a poem that our german professor used to read us in class. Ja, das war zum letzenmal/ Das, wir beide, arm in arme/ unter einem Schirm gebogen. --/ A...Katherine Mansfield Edward MorikeErinerung - an C.N.Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Walter] Besant told [William Robertson] Nicoll that no sooner had he read "The Light that Failed" (1891) on a long train journey than he started it again and read it th...Walter Besant Rudyard KiplingThe Light that FailedPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.'Arnold Bennett The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".'George Bernard Shaw St PaulEpistlesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'George Bernard Shaw The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'George Bernard Shaw John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"The Prime Minister's daughter Violet Asquith read ... [The Heir of Redclyffe] seven times 'from cover to cover -- never failing to cry at the end' ..."Violet Asquith Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday'D.R. Davies Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of England from the Accession of James...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'...Joseph Keating [boys' magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'...Joseph Keating [thrillers]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'...Joseph Keating [Greek Philosophy]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t...Flora Thompson Royal ReaderPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t...Flora Thompson [history reader]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t...Flora Thompson Giovanni Battista BelzoniNarrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full stop [on coming to episode unfit for children] ... s...Elizabeth Sewell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Mary Crawford Fraser recalled how a contemporary at the boarding-school run by her aunt, with a background in trade, was expelled for reading from unsuitable passages of...Rosie Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Annabel Huth Jackson recalls the impact of a copy of Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads" at Cheltenham Ladies' College: "half the house went mad over it and we copied out mo...Pupils at Cheltenham Ladies' CollegeAlgernon SwinburnePoems and BalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Ewing Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our...Charlotte Yonge Print: Book


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