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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea running the heel of...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea running the heel of...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all...Philip Gibbs John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American...Lloyd George John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
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1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonLycidasPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard John MiltonSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe John MiltonComplete poetryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonAreopagitica: a Speech of Mr John Milton for the L...Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaJohn Milton Print: Book
1600-1699"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..."Henry Wotton John MiltonA Mask Presented at Ludlow CastlePrint: Book
1600-1699"One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C14a12) ... contains handwritten corrections of both t...anon John MiltonParadise Regain'd/Samson AgonistesPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th...George Howell John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Mammon (figurative) description of, Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 680'.Edward Davy Harrop John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses copy of Paradise Lost annotated by John Keats for Mrs Dilke, in which passages highlighted and critical commentary added.John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite...Allen Clarke John Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield John Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book


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