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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		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...Walter ScottThe TalismanPrint: 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...Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole read early volumes of "The Girl's Own Paper" belonging to her mother (and found them dated and over-moralistic).'Margaret Cole The Girl's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Amy Barlow, writing of the late 1890s, recalls how her mother seemed to have a vivid memory of her childhood reading, and would recommend enthusiastically to her daughte...Amy Barlow Elizabeth WetherellThe Old HelmetPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on hydraulicsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on astronomyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).Beryl Lee Booker Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).Beryl Lee Booker Susan CoolidgeWhat Katy DidPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou...Henry Maynard Monier Williamswork/s on Eastern religionsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard John MiltonSonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard William CowperpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... when ... [Amy Barlow's] brother-in-law caught her sniffing over ... [Ethel Voynich, "The Gadfly" (1897)], he began to weep in [mock] sympathy.'Amy Barlow Ethel VoynichThe GadflyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and "the Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothersRudyard KiplingPuck of Pook's HillPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and the "Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...'Margaret Cole and brothers Sexton BlakePrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...'Margaret Cole and brothers The MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...'Margaret Cole and brothers boys' school storiesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfield" and then it had to be in secret' (p.7).'Mary Paley Marshall Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who lived with the family, to "gulp ... guilty pages of it" ...Susan Mitchell George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p...Tiddy Alfred Tennysonpoems including The RevengePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p...Mary Stocks and siblingsAlfred Tennysonpoems including The RevengePrint: Book


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