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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
 
1600-1699'and so away back home again, reading all the way the book of the Collection of Oaths in the several offices in this nation, which is worth a man's reading' Samuel Pepys Richard GarnetThe book of oaths ... very useful for all persons ...Print: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 28 May 1829: 'Mr. MacIntosh Mackay breakfasted and inspected my curious MS. which Dr. Brindley [sic for Brinkley] gave me. Mr. Mackay, I should say Doctor wh...MacIntosh Mackay The Book of RightsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'K.S. Evans assisted [her husband's discussion of superstition] by reading from Walter Raymond's "The Book of Simple Delights".'Katherine Evans Walter RaymondThe Book of Simple DelightsPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a very clear, agreeably-written narrative and though often partial & one-sided, in a good spirit on the whole & with enlightened views'.G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Robert SoutheyThe Book of the ChurchPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia show that he studied Castiglione [...] with considerable care [...] In 1572 he acquired [Thomas] Hoby's translation of Castiglione's [itali...Gabriel Harvey Baldassare CastiglioneThe Book of the CourtierPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles ButlerThe Book of the Roman Catholic ChurchPrint: Book
1850-1899Thomas Burke on reading The Bookman as teenager, in Son of London (1947, 1948): "'I lived through each month for it; after each issue I was looking impatiently for the ne...Thomas Burke The BookmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Monday 13th December ?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'. Gerald Moore Victor MacClureThe Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of LondonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"In 1843, W[ordsworth] recalled his research for The Borderers: ' ... having a wish to colour the manners in some degree from local history more than my knowledge enabled...William Wordsworth George RedpathThe Border History of England and ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: '...but there is a man, whose name is not known in the world — Wordsworth — who has written great part...Robert Southey William WordsworthThe BorderersManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Mary Berry to Horace Walpole [1789]: 'A thousand thanks for the "Botanic Garden." the first thirty lines, which I have just read, are delicious, and make me quite anxiou...Mary Berry Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden (first thirty lines)Print: Unknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole (as 'Thelyphthorus') to Mary Berry, 28 April 1789: 'I send you the most delicious poem upon earth [Erasmus Darwin, "The Botanic Garden"] [...] This is only...Horace Walpole Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden (part 1)Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] They are the only ones I have [italics]seen[end ital...Elizabeth Barrett Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden, a PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningArthur Hugh CloughThe Bothie of Toper-Na-FuosichPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord ...Members of XII Book ClubAlan Alexander MilneThe Boy Comes HomePrint: Book
1900-1945'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth...Percy Wall n/aThe Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb...Laura Knight The Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer...Muriel Box n/aThe Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chums" for me. "Chums" was at that time a chief rival of...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Every child was given a little volume called King Edward's Realm, bound in imitation crimson leather, which I found slow going. The fate of books is strange. Perha...Edmund Blunden [n/a] [n/a]The Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical


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