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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'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... S...Rose Macaulay Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual'Caroline Clive Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.'William Makepeace Thackeray Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.'William Makepeace Thackeray Edward Bulwer Lytton Print: Book
1850-1899'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again....Lord Lansdowne Caroline ClivePaul FerrollPrint: Book
1850-1899'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again....Lord Lansdowne Caroline Clivepoems (unspecified)Print: Book
1850-1899Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Christ, which her godmother gave her when she was 13'.Rose Macaulay Thomas a KempisOn The Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899'[T.A.] Jackson's tastes had been formed by the old books in his parents' home: "A fine set of Pope, an odd volume or two of the Spectator, a Robinson Crusoe, Pope's tran...Thomas A. Jackson Alexander Pope Print: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent John Milton Print: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent William Cowper Print: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] cultural contacts broadened when he became an apprentice bookbinder in London, discovering the work of William Morris, Cobden-Sanderson and the Arts and Cr...Joseph Malaby Dent William Morris Print: Book
1850-1899'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I...Philip Ballard Charles Dickens Print: Book
1850-1899'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I...Philip Ballard William Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book
1850-1899'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I...Philip Ballard [lives and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I...Philip Ballard Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol...H.M. Tomlinson BiblePrint: Book


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