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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
 
1600-1699For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in t...William Gouge [various]Print: Book
1500-1599In his Childe-hood he was so addicted to those means which his Parents applied him unto, for the implanting in him the seeds of good Literature, that he rather needed a ...Thomas Gataker [various]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read a good deal of Shakespeares works. Item Ben Johnsons, & Return'd them to the library'John Henry Ott William Shakespereare[various]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progress in reading for although I had heedlessly neglecte...Joseph Mayett [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849'After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in my pocket, that it might be at hand in case I should ...Thomas Carter [unknown][various]Print: Book
1850-1899'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my want, among the second-hand bookstalls in Newcastle ...Thomas Burt John Milton[various]Print: Book
1850-1899?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam...Samuel Bailey [unknown][various]Print: Book
1850-1899?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam...Thomas Burt [unknown][various]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also...John Marsh [unknown][various]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also...Elizabeth Marsh [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we required, at the sum above named; and thus, for six...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849'"My books" - I have a few of my own - pick up a loom where it can be had; so of course my reading is without choice or system.'William Thom [unknown][various]Print: Book
1700-1799'To Richard's where I stayed all afternoon ... I met mr Graham of our college formerly, and he showed me some Verses about Lord Cateret that were made in Ireland, pretty ...John Byrom anon[Verse on Lord Cateret]Unknown
1700-1799'[Mr Lysons] brought me these Old Verses one Day, I think they are to be found in a book called Paradise of dainty Devices - compiled in the Reign of Elizabethe' [the (un...Hester Lynch Thrale [verses beginning 'Pass gentelle Thought to her wh...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath, in competition for honorary prizes, being mentione...Samuel Johnson [unknown][verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Dr Burney] could write admirable Verses had he Leisure and Inclination so to do. He has shewn me in Confidence a little Poem partly on the Plan & in the Spirit of the D...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles Burney[verses modelled on 'The Dunciad']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Darling of the Muses'] 'Mr Worsdale shewed this Ballad ...Matthew Pilkington Laetititia Pilkington[verses on 'Stella']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Darling of the Muses'] 'Mr Worsdale shewed this Ballad ...James Worsdale Laetititia Pilkington[verses on 'Stella']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'When Doctor Parker had read the foregoing Poem [given - a long poem by Mrs Thrale on his dog Pompey] he wrote these verses upon it Impromptu. [the verses are given]'Dr Parker Hester Lynch Thrale[verses on a dog named Pompey]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Apropos to Garrick when I dined at Hampton last there was a pompous Reading of some pretty Verses from A Gentleman to [italics] his own [end italics] wife with a Knife -...Hester Lynch Thrale [verses on a lady and a pen knife]Manuscript: Unknown


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