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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
"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley The ClarionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945
"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley Merrry EnglandPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley God and My NeighbourPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
"Annabel Huth Jackson ... [became] a 'convinced feminist' after reading an article on the white slave trade in th War Cry when she was thirteen ..."Annabel Huth Jackson The War CryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945
"Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that "'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an African Farm and a strange expression came over her face...anon Olive SchreinerThe Story of an African FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo...Viscountess Rhondda feminist writingsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo...Viscountess Rhondda works on political sciencePrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo...Viscountess Rhondda works on economicsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo...Viscountess Rhondda works on psychologyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo...Viscountess Rhondda works in anthropologyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: even her father was not able to go straight to a shop...Viscountess Rhondda Havelock EllisThe Psychology of SexPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'"[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 [penny dreadfuls]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate [penny dreadfuls about Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bil...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
" ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time: "'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intoxication from Mozart and Beethoven than any common mo...anon Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "On a visit to the Quantocks... William Hale White, 'Mark Rutherford,' reread The Excursion, book 1...William Hale White William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum kn...Arthur Harding Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum kn...Arthur Harding Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book



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