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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'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very ...Mary Augusta Ward El Cantar de Mio Cid Print: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery Bible, thePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery Godey's Lady's BookPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery anon Little Katey and Jolly JimPrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery [novels for adults]Print: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery History of the WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery [Christian books and missionary tracts]Print: Book, religious tracts
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Alexander Macneill BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Alexander Macneill [newspaper from Charlottetown]Print: Newspaper, Daily
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due...Lucy Maud Montgomery Wide Awake magazine - serialised storyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due...Lucy Maud Montgomery Hans Christian AndersenFairy TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due...Lucy Maud Montgomery unknownThe Honey Stew of the Countess BerthaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Maud began [her diary] right after she had read a book called "A Bad Boy's Diry" [sic], a story a teacher had left behind at the house after boarding there for a year. I...Lucy Maud Montgomery A Bad Boy's DiryPrint: Book
1850-1899[Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is reference to another medical work 'An Essay on The Action o...Magdalene Sharpe Erskine Alexander MacaulayA dictionary of medicine, designed for popular usePrint: Book
1850-1899[Maud wrote] 'pious tales inspired by a book she read on Sundays when she was only allowed to read religious works. She loved that book. It was called "The Memoir of Anzo...Lucy Maud Montgomery unknownThe Memoir of Anzonetta PetersPrint: Book
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery] 'wrote her first poem after reading "Seasons", a book of poems by James Thomson, written in blank verse. Maud was so enraptured by them that she had to ...Lucy Maud Montgomery James ThomsonSeasons, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called "Zanoni", an occult love story written by an English nobleman named Edward Bulwer-Lytton. She read and re-rea...Lucy Maud Montgomery Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Charles DickensPickwick Papers, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book


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