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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
 
1800-1849'When Wordsworth was then spoken of as a great poet, the ordinary question was, "Why is he not more popular?" The process through which public opinion gradually turns fro...Charles Knight Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laug...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1800-1849'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laug...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles DickensMemoirs of Joseph GrimaldiPrint: Book
1800-1849'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laug...Sarah Harriet Burney Benson Earle HillRecollections of an Artillery Officer including sc...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriler ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas"...Frederick Rogers [Bible]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas...Frederick Rogers John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas...Frederick Rogers Alexandre Dumas Print: Book
1900-1945'When your book ["The Problem of China"] arrived we were away for a few days. Perhaps [...] I should have acknowledged the receipt at once. But I preferred to read it be...Joseph Conrad Bertrand RussellThe Problem of ChinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that...Thomas Carter Samuel RogersHuman Life, a PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that...Thomas Carter [unknown][History of the recent wars]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When, a year later, a senior apprentice -a Clarion Scout -gave me a copy of the penny edition of Blatchford's "Merrie England" of which he had sold a large quantity "rou...Thomas A. Jackson Robert BlatchfordMerrie EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'When, a year or two later, we read "Julius Caesar" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it very funny, but I recognised its authenticity. Shak...Norman Nicholson William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
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
1900-1945'When, in my schooldays, I read H.G. Wells's "Kipps", I recognised it as in some ways a portrait of my father.'Norman Nicholson H.G. WellsKippsPrint: Book
1800-1849'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened a little. I then obtained access to a greater varie...James Glass Bertram Mrs JohnstoneThe SchoolmasterPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'When, years later, I first read "Lady Chatterley's Lover", I did not feel that I was being liberated into a new frankness of manhood: I felt that I was returning to baby...Norman Nicholson D.H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's LoverPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whenever I read in St Paul's Epistle on justification by faith alone, my good mistress would read in the Epistle of St James, such passages as say that a man is not just...James Lackington BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Whenever I read Milton's description of paradise - the happiness, which he so poetically describes fills me with benevolent satisfaction - yet, I cannot help viewing the...Mary Wollstonecraft John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'Whenever she felt morose or lonely she looked into books, and, having an insatiable curiosity, by the time she was three she had taught herself to read. Hans Christian A...Edith Sitwell Hans Christian AndersenFairy TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Whenever we felt too tired even to manufacture the ribald witticisms of the Going-Down play, we took it in turns to read Professor A. F. Pollard's ironic "History of Eng...Vera Brittain and her fellow studentsA.F. PollardHistory of EnglandPrint: Book, Unknown


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