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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'Why should my anxious heart repine, ... Byron-1807' [three stanzas first published in Moore's 'Life', 1830]Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronL'Amitie Est L'Amour Sans AilesUnknown
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeWindsor ForestPrint: Book
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeEthic EpistlesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeEloisa to AbelardPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington John DenhamCooper's HillPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of ShaftesburyPhilosophical Rhapsody, APrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Why the hell did you or your printers - a lousy lot whom I abominate - pass over a correction of mine and send me sprawling down to posterity as an ignoramus who thought...Robert Louis Stevenson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Why? Largely to find out so far as possible, what is happening. Sometimes I am so much in despair about the possibility to [of] finding out this from papers, that I can'... NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Wigtown:...Not only the farmers ,but many of the tradesmen, read the newspapers'the people of Wigtown [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards George Meredith Print: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Edward Gibbonpresumably Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Algernon Charles Swinburne Print: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Clarion (literary pages)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Wilde also excelled in French. His copy of Voltaire's "Histoire de Charles XII" bears the autograph and date "Oscar Wilde September 2nd 1865 [...] On page 171 the ten-ye...Oscar Wilde VoltaireHistoire de Charles XIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde later said that it was his mother who inspired him to write verse [....] When his poems first appeared in magazines she compiled a scrapbook of them, and frequentl...Speranza Wilde Oscar WildeMagdalen WalksUnknown
1850-1899'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)"; in another, he mentioned "Th...Oscar Wilde Algernon SwinburneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)"; in another, he mentioned "Th...Oscar Wilde Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book


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