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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		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Polly Stamper Mrs Henry [Ellen] WoodThe ChanningsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymn...Henry CocktonThe Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, Ventrilo...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymn... [unknown]Sylvestre SoundPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymn... [unknown]SomnambulistPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymn...Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Strand MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]WindsorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room w...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Pearson'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand bookstall in the market. ...he handed me a book tha...Joseph Stamper [anon]Guy's ExpositorPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a poet myself...'Joseph Stamper [n/a][Penny Poets]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...'Joseph Stamper [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" in two volumes. The first volume was anatomy and phy...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Quain's AnatomyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I read a lot of astronomy and that, too, was wonderful. The world is full of wonders if one only looks for them. One book I got was on spectrum analysis, as applied to a...Joseph Stamper [unknown][Astronomy and spectrum analysis]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was so interested in spectrum analysis that I took the big book to school with me, to read in playtime. The desks we had were box-type, there was a lid to lift and you...Joseph Stamper [unknown][Astronomy and spectrum analysis]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Woo...Winifred Agnes Moore Hermann SudermannThe Song of SongsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Considerable marginalia in pencil in English, especially on the following pages: 30, 186, 216, 220-224.Vernon Lee Grant AllenPhysiological AestheticsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some textual marginalia in pencil in French on pages 173 and 176, and pencil marks throughout.Vernon Lee Lucien ArreatLes croyances des demainPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Textual marginalia in pencil in French on page 46 only, and some pencil marks in the margins throughout.Vernon Lee Lucien ArreatMemoire et imaginationPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Textual marginalia in pencil in French in the second half of the volume (Arreat's translation of Hirth) only.Vernon Lee Georges HirthPhysiologie de l'artPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout.Vernon Lee James Mark BaldwinSocial and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Devel...Print: Book


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