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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
 
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: William Taylor: "I did not know he [Crane] was committed [for trial] till I saw it in the newspaper"William Taylor  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Jesse Adkins: "I am the landlord of the Laurel... My servant, Moore, came to me on the 20th of February -I went and missed a cand...Michael McCrea  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: Lucy Tring: "In the parlour with me and my husband, who was reading the newspaper." John Howe: "On Thursday, the 2nd of Septe...Thomas Tring  Print: Newspaper, Pamphlet
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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'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious al...Harry West Sigmund Freud Print: Book
1900-1945'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious al...Harry West Carl Jung Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1812, including Granville Penn, "The Bioscope, or Dia...George Gordon Lord Byron anon Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly kept by my father was a bill, 'a first, second and ...Francis Place  Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster
1700-1799It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holidays, these were Thursdays and Saturdays. On these occ...Francis Place  Print: Book
1700-1799It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holidays, these were Thursdays and Saturdays. On these occ...Older boys from the school of Francis Place  Print: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place Tobias George Smollett Print: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place Henry Fielding Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place John Locke Print: Book
1700-1799[Proceedings of the London Corresponding Society] The usual mode of proceeding at these weekly meetings was this. The chairman read from some book a chapter or part of a ...Members of the London Corresponding Society  Print: Book
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ...Francis Place Helvetius Print: Book
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ...Francis Place Jean-Jacques Rousseau Print: Book
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ...Francis Place Voltaire Print: Book
1800-1849I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the day was closed, which never happened till half past...Francis Place  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 George Meredith Print: Book
1600-1699That was carried by Tymothie Code,a scrivenor in Chelmsford, to the coffeehouse, and there read by on Mr. Johnson, curat at that tyme of the parish, in presence of Thomas...  Print: Pamphlet


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