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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. Like a...Jack Lawson Thomas Hardy 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 Victor Hugo 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 William Shakespeare 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 The BiblePrint: 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 James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'Thomas Thompson Charles Dickens Print: Book
1850-1899'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'Thomas Thompson William Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book
1850-1899'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'Thomas Thompson Oliver Wendell Holmes Print: Book
1850-1899'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'Thomas Thompson Marcus Aurelius[Meditations]?Print: Book
1850-1899'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating books it has been my happy fortune to meet with".'Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford Samuel SmilesSelf HelpPrint: Book
1850-1899'At tea time however I came down stairs & after reading a while went into the office & attended to some duty'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls: "Bill couldn't read a bit, but he...Charley anon[penny dreadfuls]Print: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful
1850-1899Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls: Charley reads penny dreadfuls to ...Charley ? Tyburn DickPrint: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful
1850-1899?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the time of Edward I by F. W. Maitland? It is a wonderf...Leslie Stephen F. W. MaitlandHistory of English LawPrint: Book
1850-1899'Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the...John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace ThackerayThe NewcomesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Chester Armstrong's] political consciousness was awakened when his father, a self-help Radical, read aloud the weekly paper, which brought home the horrors of the Afgha... [weekly paper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve...Chester Armstrong Daniel Defoe Print: Book
1850-1899'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve...Chester Armstrong Frederick Marryat Print: Book


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