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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
 
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1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'The character of the people that Ossian describes, their manners, their habits, but above all, their superstitions, are essentially poetic.'Robert Story Ossian Print: Book
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1800-1849		Charlotte Bronte to William Wordsworth (in draft response to letter from him of c.1840): 'I am sorry I did not exist, sir, fifty or sixty years ago, when the "Ladies' ...Elizabeth Branwell The Lady's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
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1800-1849		‘... [William] Roscoe’s “Butterfly's Ball” and Mrs. [Sarah] Trimmer’s “Flapsy and Pecksey” (which I am glad to see so kindly mentioned in the Doctor [by Robert Southey]...Hartley Coleridge Sarah TrimmerFabulous Histories, Designed for the Instruction o...Print: Book
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1800-1849		'Mr father could not have written the Ancient Mariner at sixty, yet who will say that his genius declined? The Genius was there as mighty as ever, but the frame could n...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1700-1799Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late.Gertrude Savile James ShirleyThe Gratefull Servant. A Comedie...Print: Book
1700-1799'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.'George Austen Francis LathomMidnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incident...Print: Book
1700-1799'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings that we should purchase the only one of Egerton's w...Jane Austen Samuel Egerton BrydgesArthur Fitz-Albini: a NovelPrint: Book
1700-1799'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.'Jane Austen James BoswellTour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1700-1799'There was a very long list of Arrivals here, in the Newspaper yesterday, so that we need not immediately dread absolute solitude.'Jane Austen  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.'George Austen William CowperunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799None went to Church. Aunt gave us coffee. Mother read scriptures.Barbara Savile BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Landscape gardener Humphry Repton's wife read to him while he drew''.Humphry Repton unknownunknownUnknown
1700-1799'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's works".'Thomas Moore Maria Edgeworth[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".'Dr Delany EusebiusLife of Constantine the GreatPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".'Patrick Delany Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1700-1799'In 1753 Catherine Talbot stayed with the Berkeley family and participated enthusiastically in readings of "Sir Charles Grandison".'Catherine Talbot Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Aucterderran, Fife: In common with the rest of Scotland, the vulgar are, for their station, literate, beyond all other nations. Puritanic and abstruse divinity come in f...the people of Auchterderran, Fife [Puritanic and abstruse divinity texts]Print: Book
1700-1799'They likewise read, occasionally, a variety of other books unconnected with such subjects [religion]... Although the parish consists wholly of the poorer ranks of societ...the people of Auchterderran, Fife [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'.the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [newspapers]Print: Newspaper


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