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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		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Sidney LanierunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Mark TwainunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		 'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show that by this time there was a tremendous demand o...Hannah Mitchell Emmeline PankhurstMy Own StoryPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show that by this time there was a tremendous demand on ...Hannah Mitchell Helena SwanwickI have been YoungPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What an Aladdin's cave i...Sir John Hammerton Joseph Addison[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What an Aladdin's cave i...Sir John Hammerton Oliver Goldsmith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What an Aladdin's cave i...Sir John Hammerton Francis Bacon[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What anAladdin's cave it...Sir John Hammerton Richard Steele[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What anAladdin's cave it...Sir John Hammerton Thomas De Quincey[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What an Aladdin's cave i...Sir John Hammerton Charles Lamb[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrive...Edwin Muir Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Sutherland sometimes had sent to him by a cousin in Leith ...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Police NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chums" for me. "Chums" was at that time a chief rival of...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chums" for me. "Chums" was at that time a chief rival of...Edwin Muir [n/a]ChumsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir John KeatsThe Eve of Saint AgnesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonais: An elegy on the death of John KeatsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir Robert BrowningThe Pied Piper of HamelinPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir Matthew ArnoldTristram and IseultPrint: Book


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