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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"[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..."George Bernard Shaw Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1850-1899"In 1932 Thomas Burke paid tribute to T. P.'s Weekly for having fired his imagination and given direction to his life ... 'I discovered literature by picking up a copy of...Thomas Burke T. P.'s WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all...Philip Gibbs William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all...Philip Gibbs John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all...Philip Gibbs Sir Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all...Philip Gibbs William Makepeace ThackerayunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all...Philip Gibbs Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all...Philip Gibbs George EliotunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all...Philip Gibbs Thomas HardyunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899"As a teenager ... [Holbrook Jackson] had been transported from Merseyside to the South Sea Islands. The vessel that bore him was imagination in the form of a 'musty cop...Holbrook Jackson Herman MelvilleTypeePrint: Book
1850-1899Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'I came upon the works of J. M. Robertson, also once a poor boy who had made himse...Neville Cardus J. M. RobertsonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'... one day I picked up a copy of Samuel Butler's Note Books and read the followi...Neville Cardus Samuel ButlerNote BooksPrint: Book
1850-1899On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Weekly as a newspaper boy, which 'gave me the taste for ...[a Lancashire man] anon The British WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Thomas Burke on reading The Bookman as teenager, in Son of London (1947, 1948): "'I lived through each month for it; after each issue I was looking impatiently for the ne...Thomas Burke The BookmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[George] Saintsbury [who became a Tory journalist] read Marx as an undergraduate ...'George Saintsbury Karl MarxunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'... Oliver Twist (1838), the first Dickens that A. A. Milne was exposed to, at 9, gave him nightmares.'Alan Alexander Milne Charles DickensOliver TwistPrint: Book
1850-1899Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my teachers -- I know I was reading Pinnock's "History of ...Andrew Lang Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my teachers -- I know I was reading Pinnock's "History of ...Andrew Lang PinnockHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'The first imaginative work by an Englishman ... [Joseph Conrad] read was Nicholas Nickleby (1839).'Joseph Conrad Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and the first violinist of a visiting orchestra. He ... e...Neville Cardus Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book


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