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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'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious al...Harry West John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "George [Gaith?]" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899"Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald."Agnes Blanche Hemming George MacDonaldAlec Forbes of HowglenPrint: Book
1850-1899"Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'".Agnes Blanche Hemming George MacDonaldAlec Forbes of HowglenPrint: Book
1850-1899"Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair with early promise, having shelter from the wind an...Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899'At age twelve, recalled ploughboy John Ward, "I devoured - not read, that's too tame an expression - Robinson Crusoe, and that book gave me all my spirit of adventure, w...John Ward Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899?the snow left off a bit after lunch & we strolled out for a walk? so after pounding a mile or two out & home along slushy snow-paths we came home rather disgusted & boug...Leslie Stephen Plato Print: Book
1850-1899'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David Copperfield. His parents punished him when they lea...George Acorn Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading John Racine: it is very standard − damnd[sic] standard, I beg your pardon.[…] I like John Racine, however; the noise is very pleasing and as un...Robert Louis Stevenson Jean RacineunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'There is only one very good thing in the world: the acting of Sarah Bernhardt. I beg your pardon, there is another: Pierre Veron’s "Pantheon de Poche".'Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre VeronLe Pantheon de PochePrint: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Henry Fielding Print: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Tobias Smollett Print: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Alexander Pope Print: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Henry Fielding Print: Book


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