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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
 
1700-1799Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner.Gertrude Savile John GayThe Beggar's OperaPrint: Book
1700-1799Mrs Newton, Lady Palmerston, Lady Clavering and 2 daughters (great fortunes), and 3 Mrs Fox's here. While the last 2 were here, and Mrs D'Enly alone in Mother's room, I r...Gertrude Savile John GayThe Beggar's OperaPrint: Book
1700-1799Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone.Gertrude Savile John GayThe Beggars OperaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph HughesThe Believer's Prospect and PreparationPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James RellyThe Believer's TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945'If you have not read "The Believing Bishop" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend it to you as a fine disturbing book'. Arnold Bennett Havergall BatesThe Believing BishopPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Bell of St Paul's'Sarah Good Walter BesantThe Bell of St Paul'sPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842: 'My dearest friend, here is the newspaper [containing report of Mitford's laying corner stone of New Pu...Elizabeth Barrett The Berkshire ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fortnight I might manage to finish (by February) "The Ag...Hilary Spalding Charles LambThe Best of LambPrint: Book
1900-1945I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in...Arnold Bennett Kate SimmondsThe Best PolicyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The...Marianne Farningham Felicia HemansThe Better LandPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
    A. G Joselin in the chair.

[...]

5. F. E. Pollard then undertook...		Muriel Stevens Matthew ArnoldThe Better PartUnknown
1900-1945Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 "The birthplace": "This was based on the story of Mr. Skipsey, told to Carry [i.e. ...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe better sortPrint: Book
1500-1599' A Jesuit reported on a Puritan meeting in the late 1580s: "Each of them had his own Bible, and sedulously turned the pages and looked up the texts cited by the preacher...Puritans The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great deal on credit for this world when he imagines that go...John Clare The BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799"In the Fenwick Note to the Intimations Ode, W[ordsworth] recalled that at school 'I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah' ... the Hawkshead schoolboys regu...William Wordsworth The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...father of Thomas Jones The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t...Mary ? The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson The BiblePrint: 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 The BiblePrint: Book


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