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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'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Lik...Jack Lawson Charles Reade Print: Book
1850-1899'I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the English papers. There were a good many members assembled to do the same thing, it is of course quite the thing that there sho...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson... would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Lik...Jack Lawson Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald Virgil Print: Book
1850-1899I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald Juvenal Print: Book
1850-1899I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald John WesleyJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'Some one by chance read out to me the other day at the seaside your account of poor old Naseby Village from Cromwell, quoted in Knight?s "Half Hours, etc." It is now tw...Edward Charles KnightHalf Hours with the Best AuthorsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse: "I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three volumes; and I used to tell stories out of that some...anon William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar...anon William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar...anon William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar...anon Newgate CalendarPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[Muir] recalls... that his father conducted a little service in the farmhouse each week: "Every Sunday night he gathered us together to read a chapter of the Bible and k...The Bible  Print: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett John RuskinUnto this LastPrint: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett Emily BronteWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 7 November 1880: ' ... please tell Charles [Norton] I am to write to him in a day or two to thank him for his own beautiful volume which I ha...Henry James Charles Eliot NortonHistorical Studies of Church Building in the Middl...Print: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson Emily Bronte Print: Book


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