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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		'[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'Arthur recalls that he could not read "properly" until he began school at the age of 9; he preferred his sister Anna to read to him. On one occasion, when she read "Uncl...Anna Symons Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Another [woman prisoner] read and re-read "Uncle Tom's Cabin," till she must have known by heart every incident of that famous work. She was partial to telling the sto...Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 30 October 1852:

'I cannot write books handling the topics of the day [...] Nor can I take up a philanthropic scheme, tho...		Charlotte Brontë Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Called upon Joe & chatted for some time with him, read a letter which Harriette had sent.'John Buckley Castieau Harriette [letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name? ["Tea at the Mains", by Harriette Cheape] It was ex...Margaret Oliphant Harriette CheapeTea at the MainsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Harrison AinsworthOld Saint Paul'sPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Harrison AinsworthTower of London, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899.'.. poor old Jack Sheppard. I doubt not Ainsworth meant to be moral.'Robert Louis Stevenson Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 17 October 1826: 'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as the stile [quotes from Jonathan Swift, "On the Dea...Walter Scott Harrison AinsworthSir John ChivertonPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding Harrison Ainsworth Print: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 20 October and 1 November 1879] 'Lady Charlotte had now for the moment deserted Shakespeare of an evening for Harrison Ainsworth's South Sea ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Harrison AinsworthSouth Sea BubblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I was never forbidden but once in my life to read any book, and that was by my stupid governess, who forbade me to read 'Old St. Paul's', by Harrison Ainsworth... I prom...Emily Lytton Harrison AinsworthOld St. Paul'sPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Harrison CadyJungle JinksPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe...Herbert Hodge Harry Blyth[Sexton Blake stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

Francis E. Pollard Harry D’ErlangerThe Last Plague of EgyptPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday...Ford Madox Ford Harry Hensen[untraced review of Ford's 'The Last Post']Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Harry Emerson FosdickThe Meaning of PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Harry Emerson FosdickThe Manhood of the MasterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Enjoyed "The second mile" by Fosdick. Actually in bed by 10.30 pm!'Albert Ruskin Cook Harry Emerson FosdickThe Second MilePrint: Book


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