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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'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman Ally Sloper's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman (nursemaid) and Mew children Christmas numbers of magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Every day [...] [Charlotte Mew] had to read a fixed number of pages from "Line Upon Line", a book which re-tells the Bible stories [for children]'.Charlotte Mew Line Upon LinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Charlotte [Mew] used to read [...] [lines from her 1912 poem "The Changeling", in which a child speaker ponders reasons for its own existence] aloud [...] to children of...Charlotte Mew Charlotte Mew'The Changeling'Print: Unknown
1850-1899"As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolWilliam Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolDante Alighieri Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolWilliam Blake Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolWilliam Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolEmily Bronte Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolChristina Rossetti Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolRobert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolElizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolCoventry Patmore Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolAlice MeynellPreludesPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolAlice Meynell"To A Daisy"Print: Book
1850-1899'From Miss [Lucy] Harrison [...] [Charlotte Mew] had heard time and again a reading of Carlyle's "Everlasting No" from "Sartor Resartus".'Lucy Harrison Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1889 [...] [Charlotte Mew] had been reading [Richard] Jeffries' "Field and Hedgerow", his last essays, a book published after his death [which supplied the epigram fo...Charlotte Mew Richard JeffriesField and HedgerowPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was eighteen when I first read those words. My train was running into Rye station and I was knocked out the ashes of my first pipe of shag tobacco... My first book had...Ford Madox Ford Rudyard KiplingOnly a subalternPrint: Book
1850-1899?I could no longer stand the torrent of nonsense, violence and folly which the newspapers day after day poured forth, and resolved to write a letter which was published i...Charles Greville [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][chronicle of conquest of the Morea]Print: Book



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