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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'I wonder whether you have read that first book of Miss Eyre's ("Mary Eyre" of the Times) "A Lady's Walks in the South of France". What a disgusting book it is, - a beggi...Harriet Martineau Mary GroteA Lady's Walks in the South of France in 1863Print: Book
1850-1899'Fan lent me the "Cornhill", with Matt's bit of sauciness... I tell Fan (we are always as plainspoken as can be) that I hope it may do more good than harm; but that it wi...Harriet Martineau Matthew Arnold'My Countrymen' (article in The Cornhill)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Heard Harry read, but was very bilious & unwell'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'heard Harry & Sissy read'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'heard Harry & Sissy read'Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the empl...John Buckley Castieau AesopFablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the empl...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time'John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the empl...John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my want, among the second-hand bookstalls in Newcastle ...Thomas Burt John Milton[various]Print: Book
1850-1899?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam...Samuel Bailey [unknown][various]Print: Book
1850-1899?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam...Thomas Burt [unknown][various]Print: Book
1850-1899?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ...Thomas Burt William WordsworthThe Solitary ReaperPrint: Book
1850-1899?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great...Thomas Burt [unknown][theological magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along...Thomas Wright [n/a][playbill]Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
1850-1899'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along...Tommy Davies [n/a][playbill]Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
1850-1899'[On Sunday] After breakfast I had taken up the "Weekly Examiner", and was intent upon a more than usually scurrilous and illogical leading article, when the paper was su...Thomas Wright [n/a][Weekly Screamer]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing houseMary Elizabeth BraddonThe Outcasts or Henry DunbarPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw George GifillanThe Bards of the BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".'George Eliot [pseud.] Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse"Vier Neue Novellen"Print: Unknown


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