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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
 
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Biographical DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an account of a curious publication, entitled, "A Spiritu...Samuel Johnson Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an account of a curious publication, entitled, "A Spiritu...James Boswell Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] The alarm of your late illness distressed me but a few hours ; for on the evening of the day that it reached me, I found it contradicte...James Boswell London ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was very silent this evening ; and read in a variety of books ; suddenly throwing down one, and taking up another.' Samuel Johnson  Print: Book
1900-1945'The magazines, when more demanding than the "Tatler", still belonged to the Conservative variety, such as the weekly "Times", the "Spectator" and "Blackwood's", so that ...Vera Brittain The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor ma...anon texts used in teaching self to readPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'Alfred and Emily Tennyson Hanes CymruPrint: Book
1850-1899'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'Alfred and Emily Tennyson MabinogionPrint: Book
1850-1899'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'Alfred and Emily Tennyson Llywarch HenPrint: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen [Elizabethan and Medieval Poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen [literary biographies]Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen [French books and books about French]Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen [books on history, classics and botany]Print: Book
1900-1945'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a devout Evangelical herself, she reared him in her faith...Wilfred Owen BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a devout Evangelical herself, she reared him in her faith...Wilfred Owen [Scripture Union notes on the Bible]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her own reading scarcely extended beyond light novels and ...Susan Owen [light novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen [texts on science / religion debate]Print: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen [a Christian response to Darwinism]Print: Book
1900-1945'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which he heard must have been that of "The Revolt of Isla...Wilfred Owen [biography of Shelley]Print: Book


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