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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
1800-1849		'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece...Amelia Opie Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece...Amelia Opie George BorrowunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'The observations of my friend Mr. Dempster in a letter written to me, soon after he had read Dr. Johnson's book, are so just and liberal that they cannot be too often re...Mr Dempster Samuel JohnsonJourney to the Western Islands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'the Ode to Indifference is a most superior Piece of elegant Writing The Occasion of it was however dreadfully unhappy'. [Mrs Thrale then tells of Mrs Greville's son's de...Hester Lynch Thrale Frances GrevilleOde to IndifferencePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now. [...] A copy of the July “BLUE” enfolding some rath...Edmund Blunden BluePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now. [...] A copy of the July “BLUE” enfolding some rath...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now. [...] A copy of the July “BLUE” enfolding some rath...Edmund Blunden Southern WeeklyPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now. [...] A copy of the July “BLUE” enfolding some rath...Edmund Blunden Daily MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The older generation read "Die Zeit", a large format newspaper in Yiddish, printed in Hebrew characters, whose contents, in tone not unlike "The Times" of those days, yo...Jewish residents of the Gorbals [n/a]Die ZeitPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The only books he had were little nature-study notebooks, supplemented by his mother reading The Pilgrim's Progress aloud. Once she cheated by leaving out a lon...Alan Mathison Turing John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pure pleasure all her life'.Elizabeth Bowen [unknown][detective stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'The only account that I have seen of the accident, in the "Figaro", is inaccurate in every detail except the number of wounded.' Arnold Bennett FigaroPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The only books I have the opportunity of reading are ration and points books.' ration booksPrint: Book
1900-1945'The only books I have the opportunity of reading are ration and points books.' points booksPrint: Book
1850-1899'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding...Thomas Okey [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding...Thomas Okey John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
1800-1849'the only fiction [Robert] Roberts read as a boy was an abridged Welsh-language Robinson Crusoe'Robert Roberts Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived from the fact that the large bare house reminded me of...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Laetitia HawkinsCountess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Disciplin...Print: Book
1800-1849'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was his acquaintance with Joseph Blacket's poetry and f...George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph BlacketpoetryUnknown
1850-1899'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant reading matter, so I said quickly: "Yes, we like it....Hannah Mitchell [unknown-probably various contributors][poems in newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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