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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 home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale BancroftThe American RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale WaddingtonChurch HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale PaleyWorksPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale Mrs JamesonCharacteristics of WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899' .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain pieces of Ruskin's Modern Painters, which she had ...Mary Augusta Ward John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish, using Bodleian "'Spanish room'".Mary Augusta Ward Texts in/on early SpanishPrint: Book
1850-1899"The suffragette, Annie Kenney (b.1879), looking back to her girlhood working in a Lancashire factory recalls ... going shares in a weekly girls' paper, 'full of wild rom...Annie Kenney and co-workers weekly girls' paperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell theological worksPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell early Methodist magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell cookery booksPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell crime/horror fictionPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell Horace WalpoleThe Castle of Otranto: A Gothic StoryPrint: Book
1850-1899"One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although only familiar with verse in the local paper, Mitche...Hannah Mitchell William WordsworthpoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899"One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although only familiar with verse in the local paper, Mitche...Hannah Mitchell local newspaper (including verse)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by books read at a well-stocked bookstall which she passed ...Hannah Mitchell library booksPrint: Book
1850-1899While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by books read at a well-stocked bookstall which she passed ...Hannah Mitchell bookstall stockPrint: Book
1850-1899"In order to read Lyell's controversial Vestiges of Creation when it first came to the house [of the Nonconformist minister in whose family she worked as companion and he...Mary Smith LyellVestiges of CreationPrint: Book
1850-1899" ... [Mrs Layton (b. 1855)] remembers, when she was in service, and about sixteen, being lent some 'trashy books' by the servant next door: narratives which came out in ...Mrs Layton popular serial fictionPrint: Serial / periodical


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