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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
 
1900-1945'There, on warm weekend days, I would sit and read in a peaceful arbour where trees and shrubbery muffled the noise of traffic'Ralph Glasser  Print: Book
1700-1799'All this while [between the ages of 7 and 15] I neither read nor wrote; nor had I access to any book save the Bible. I was greatly taken with our version of the Psalms o...James Hogg Bible [Psalms]Print: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Cornelia Sorabji Criminal DigestPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cramb, and some Bernhardi, and I am sure we could not ...Edward Morgan Forster 'White Paper'Print: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'Just now I sit in the N[ational]. G[allery]. having studied a notice that instructs me to "attack" a petrol bomb wi...Edward Morgan Forster notice on wartime safety measuresPrint: ?poster ('notice')
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart Quarterly Review [articles on classics]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa Clinton [description of Court of Haiti]Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter ...Edward Morgan Forster The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter ...Edward Morgan Forster The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also...Edward Morgan Forster 'Missionary magazine'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917: 'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't docked 2/- from your £ for it: an undistinguished little...Edward Morgan Forster The Feet of the Young MenPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an e...Anne Romilly [newspaper extract of Preface to "Glenarvon"]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Robert Peel, 24 December 1821: 'I have seen in the Courier the accounts from the Irish papers of O'Connell's affair.'John Wilson Croker CourierPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. He told me she could read the black letter, and asked him...Samuel Johnson [reading lessons]Print: Book
1700-1799'When he [Johnson] was a child in petticoats, and had learnt to read, Mrs Johnson one morning put the common prayer-book into his hands, pointed to the collect for the da...Samuel Johnson Book of Common Prayer [collect for the day]Print: Book
1700-1799'He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. He told me she could read the black letter, and asked him...Dame Oliver Bible Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him, regretting that he was not a more diligen...Samuel Johnson [romances of chivalry]Print: Book
1700-1799'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, ...Samuel Johnson [various works of classics and literature]Print: Book
1700-1799'"The church in Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this,...Samuel Johnson  Print: Book
1700-1799'[quotation from Johnson's 'Life of Edmund Smith', regarding Gilbert Walmsley] His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His a...Gilbert Walmsley  Print: Book


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