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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
 
1700-1799'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunciad, are all borrowed from one of Ben Jonson's Masqu...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeRape of the Lock, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger...Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius LafontaineRaphaelPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have taken to no deeper study than Capt. Head's gallop which I have never read before. I am afraid it won't instruct me much.'Emma Wedgwood Francis HeadRapid Journeys across the PampasPrint: Book
1800-1849My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat...John Cole Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Everyman magazine with "opening up an entirely new set...James Murray Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1700-1799'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica...Frances Burney Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses extensive annotations by Hester Lynch Piozzi in 1818 copy of Rasselas in the Houghton Library, Harvard (her marginalia include anecdotes and remem...Hester Lynch Piozzi Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary reads greek & Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls.'Mary Godwin Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Mary reads greek and Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls - M. reads the Sorcerer'.Mary Godwin Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, to which Forster refers as 'a charming and important...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1700-1799'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Essays", which he liked very well, and his own "Prince ...Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonRasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Noel CowardRat Trap, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The only books I have the opportunity of reading are ration and points books.' ration booksPrint: Book
1850-1899'August at Scarborough'Sarah Good Henry KingsleyRavenshoePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Carter DicksonReader is Warned, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have two children, 2? years and 1 year old. Though in some respects I would not object to increasing my family, quite frankly I do not feel that my nerves will stand t... Reader's DigestPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I saw Lane for a few brief moments last night. He showed me a second report on Bettesworth, by G.S. Street. It was distinctly favourable & appreciative. ' Arnold Bennett G. S. Streetreader's report on "Bettesworth"Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'He said, handing me a document, ?Here is the report on your novel.? I read it. It was very laudatory on all counts, & quite free from fault finding except as to one tri...Arnold Bennett John BuchanReader's report on an [unspecified] novel by Benne...Unknown
1700-1799Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' Iwas now turned over [to another te...Robert Anderson Reading Made EasyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I cannot remember learning the Alphabet but when I was four years of age or there about my Godmother presented me with a new book it was the reading made easy it had/man...Joseph Mayett anonReading made easy in a variety of useful lessonsPrint: Book


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