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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'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 Richard JohnsonThe History of The Seven ChampionsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou...Henry Maynard Monier Williamswork/s on Eastern religionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou...Henry Maynard William Law Print: Book
1850-1899'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou...Henry Maynard Jacob Boehme Print: Book
1900-1945'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not W...Antonia White William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not W...Emily Coleman William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'When she [Katherine Hamilton, sister of Elizabeth] is not employed about something necessary and useful, she entertains herself with a book for the improvement of her mi...Katherine Hamilton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, — a Guinea a book is somewhat exorbitant, nor have...Charles Lamb Robert SoutheyThe WatchmanPrint: Serial / periodical, Extract from poetry book in periodical
1700-1799'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, - a Guinea a book is somewhat exorbitant, nor have I the...Charles Lamb Robert Southey[extracts from the "Epics" published in the "Month...Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from book in periodical.
1700-1799'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,-- "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano", and s...Dr Brocklesby JuvenalTenth SatirePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,-- "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano", and s...Samuel Johnson JuvenalTenth SatirePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with great spirit... little rain sent us into the house, and ...George Eliot (pseud) August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben[a bacchanalian poem]Manuscript: Unknown, own poem
1850-1899'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with great spirit... little rain sent us into the house, and ...George Eliot (pseud) [a french artist] [his own poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of the treatment used towards me; and particularly the "...John Mitchel [n/a]Colonial TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'When the Duke of Argyll ... visited Farringford, Tennyson read his "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" (1852) ...'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1800-1849'When the first proof came home, I did not like its look in print; so stopped the press, and wrote another first chapter'.Elizabeth Hamilton Elizabeth HamiltonLetters on EducationPrint: proof
1850-1899'When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his first volume of Sir Thomas Malory's Morete d'Arthur;...John Masefield Thomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945'When the sun had set and I was in bed again, the Mansab's brother, the Qadhi, came to help with explanatory notes for the names of places in the manuscript. We dis...Freya Stark Habib Ahmed[untitled commonplace book]Manuscript: Codex, Arabic commonplace book
1900-1945'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs....Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy [unknown][medical book]Print: Book
1900-1945'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs....Edna Bold and her cousin DorothyJohn FoxeFoxe's Book of MartyrsPrint: Book


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