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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
 
1900-1945'At sixteen I discovered the work of Edgar Allan Poe. I happened to read first his biography, and the sadness of his life made a great impression on me. I felt an enormou...Alfred Hitchcock Edgar Allan Poe Print: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides on...Thomas Babington Macaulay Aeschylus Print: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides o...Thomas Babington Macaulay Euripides Print: Book
1700-1799'There was a very long list of Arrivals here, in the Newspaper yesterday, so that we need not immediately dread absolute solitude.'Jane Austen  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A...Susan Sibbald Ann Radcliffe Print: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton [Madame] de Genlis Print: Book
1800-1849'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'Paradise Lost and 'regaind' "'Comus' & 'Allegro' & 'P...John Clare John Milton Print: Book
1700-1799Read the NewsJohn Yeoman  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799after [a morning walk] I Read the News.John Yeoman  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799home [from going to see the King's weekly procession at Kew] & Read the NewsJohn Yeoman  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Proselytised by a follower of the mystic Joanna Southcott, he read some of his propaganda but found "Some things that did not Correspond with the bible and also that it ...Joseph Mayett follower of Joanna Southcott  Print: Unknown
1800-1849'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all...Joseph Mayett William Cobbett Print: Book
1800-1849'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all...Joseph Mayett Richard Carlile Print: Book
1800-1849'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all...Joseph Mayett T.J. Wooler Print: Book
1800-1849Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper I.G. William Cowper Print: Book
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charles Dickens Print: Book
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charles and Mary Lamb Print: Book
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes George Eliot Print: Book


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