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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
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Joseph Stamper Mrs Henry [Ellen] WoodThe ChanningsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Polly Stamper Mrs Henry [Ellen] WoodThe ChanningsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Chaplet of PearlsPrint: Book
1700-1799'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned for the fame of Cicero; and that for fame and self-e...Samuel Richardson Colley CibberThe Character and Conduct of Cicero ConsideredPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Henry Wotton, 'The Character of a Happy Life'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Henry WottonThe Character of a Happy LifeUnknown
1900-1945'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political message "crashed into my mind, mixing together the ...G.A.W. Tomlinson Alfred Lord TennysonThe Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Book
1850-1899'The following tribute was received [by Tennyson] from Scutari: '"We had in hospital a man of the Light Brigade, one of the few who survived that fatal mistake, the Ba...anon Alfred TennysonThe Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth (visiting Paris) to Helen Maria Williams, [15 October 1820], 'I had the honour of receiving your letter yesterday Evening, together with the several co...William Wordsworth Helen Maria WilliamsThe Charter; addressed to my nephew Athanase C. L....Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'To the Great Pyramid' Mountain of Art! Sublime Mysterious Pile!, ... From the Cheltenham Chronicle Feb 7 1833'Bowly group [n/a]The Cheltenham ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'From the Cheltenham Chronicle of 11 Oct. 1832 on the Death of Sir Walter Scott' 'Harp of the North! The Mighty Hand, ...'Devereux Bowly [n/a]The Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Adver...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899"I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis."Albert Battiscombe Robert EllisThe Chemistry of Creation: being an outline of thePrint: Book
1800-1849'Burn. May 1812' 'The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning /...' [transcribes poem]B.A.T. Herbert Robert BurnsThe Chevalier's LamentUnknown
1800-1849'"The Child of Earth" by the Hon. Mrs Norton Fainter Her Slow Step falls from day to day... Otley - February 15th 1831. Benj. Beanlands'Benjamin Beanlands Caroline Elizabeth Sarah NortonThe Child of EarthUnknown
1800-1849'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ...Harriet Grove Regina Maria RocheThe Children of the AbbeyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Mary S. Stansfield Israel ZangwillThe Children of the GhettoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Frederick MarryatThe Children of the New ForestPrint: Book
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 Frederick MarryatThe Children of the New ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little school editions, were enough to sour a boy against the...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensThe ChimesPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 29 December 1844: 'I have read the "Chimes." I don't like it [...] Mr Dickens wants the earnest good-faith in narration wh...Mary Russell Mitford Charles DickensThe ChimesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'The "Chimes" touched me very much! I thought it & still think it, one of the most beautiful of [Dickens's...Elizabeth Barrett Charles DickensThe ChimesPrint: Book


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