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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'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric...family of Rose GambleJohn Buchan[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'He said, handing me a document, ?Here is the report on your novel.? I read it. It was very laudatory on all counts, & quite free from fault finding except as to one tri...Arnold Bennett John BuchanReader's report on an [unspecified] novel by Benne...Unknown
1850-1899'I prefer to say nothing critical about John Buchan's story'. Hence follow more than twenty lines of quite strong and pointed, almost entirely negative, criticism.Joseph Conrad John BuchanThe Far IslandsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Finished reading "The Northern Muse", arranged by John Buchan. A fine anthology - yet one must admit that our greatest poems are ballads by unknown men. If a choice had ...William Soutar John BuchanThe Northern MusePrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved...Hilary Spalding John BuchanHunting TowerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 31st March 1942. S. A. Reynolds in the chair. 1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. [...] 4. The...Margaret Dilks John BuchanSick Heart RiverPrint: Book
1900-1945'Here I have been reading any amount of rubbish: among them (the rubbishes) two quite admirable shockers by John (Prester) Buchan: THE POWERHOUSE and THE THIRTY NIN...Francis Brett Young John BuchanThe Power-HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'Here I have been reading any amount of rubbish: among them (the rubbishes) two quite admirable shockers by John (Prester) Buchan: THE POWERHOUSE and THE THIRTY NIN...Francis Brett Young John BuchanThe Thirty Nine StepsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".'Joseph Mayett John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgri...mother of Joseph Wright John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d...John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. A...Hugh Miller John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ...Samuel Bamford John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ...Thomas Thompson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas...Frederick Rogers John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the Celestial City; mused over his hair-breadth escapes,...William Heaton John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe...Herbert Hodge John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book


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