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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
 
1800-1849prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Brown: "I was going to the West India Dock, I had a newspaper in my handing reading of it, and when I got into the court I was...William Brown  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Samuel Leigh: "I lodge at the Elephant and Castle, Holborn. On the 12th of October I was sitting in the tap-room breakfasting...a...Samuel Leigh  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods: William de Roach: "In the middle of August I was in Pollard's Parlour, Pollard was reading the newspaper,...John Pollard  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods: William de Roach: "Then the week following Mrs Rippen came down several times and asked what such stones ...John Pollard  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: William Pocock: "On the night of the 8th of January I was at the King's Head... I took up the newspaper, and while I was reading ...William Pocock  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for murder: Henry Bracken: "I caused hom to be apprehended. I read the description of him in the newspaper and caused him to be taken up"Henry Bracken  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for deception/forgery: John Dougan: "I was going to the West Indies, in pursuance of that my business. I had occasion for an interpreter; I ...Anthony McKenrott  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Michael McNally: "Jack brought a newspaper to me, and read a statement that Cooper was apprehended upon this, and he said that Me...John (Jack) Winter  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for burglary: Ralph Hope: "[Spencer] was apprehended and committed for examination. In about a fortnight after, I saw an advertisement in th...Ralph Hope Morning AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: George Nash: "I was never in the house before... I only staid while I drank my beer -I looked at the newspaper. I was not there a...George Nash  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two o...William Wordsworth Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] read "Christian's own Account of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty, commanded by Captain Bligh, of which he was the Ringleader" in The Weekly En...William Wordsworth Weekly Entertainer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Mary has been reading to us (I stopped writing to hear it) the account of the death of Mr. Pitt - happy for him that he had died at this time!'Mary Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth: 'I read in the papers with great pain the account of Mungo Park's disastrous end ... 'William Wordsworth [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I hope the execrable Murderer will prove to have been an Irishman; the Scotch much to their honour have hitherto been little tainted by that detestable crime. I had rea...William Wordsworth [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson: 'You had been strangely misinformed of the nature of the Edinburgh Review of William [Wordsworth]'s poems [ie his Poems in Two V...Dorothy Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'In passing through Penrith I had an opportunity of seeing his [Francis Jeffrey's] last Review [of Wordsworth's Poems on Two Volumes, ...William Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth reflects on prospect that her brother William might turn to newspaper journalism for a living: 'This reminds me of the last Edinburgh Review which I sa...Dorothy Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
Henry Mayhew's interview with an orphan flower girl and her sister: "'We've always had good health. We can all read'. [Here the three somewhat insisted upon proving to...anon Garden of HeavenPrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a sweet-stuff maker: "One of the appliances of the sweet-stuff trade which I saw in the room of seller before mentioned was -Acts of Parliament...anon History of EnglandPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, uncut sheets


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