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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
 
1850-1899Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls: Charley reads penny dreadfuls to ...Charley ? Tyburn DickPrint: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful
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1850-1899		Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "I take home the 'Family Herald', and read it with a great deal of pleasure, an...Abel Heywood Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
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1850-1899		Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "I take home the 'Family Herald', and read it with a great deal of pleasure, an...Heywood family Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "My experience is this: that what interested me most of all in newspaper reading, and what ...William Edward Hickson The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
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1850-1899		Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I find even with myself coming to London occasionally only as I do now, that I really take...William Edward Hickson Maidstone GazettePrint: Newspaper
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1850-1899		Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I find even with myself coming to London occasionally only as I do now, that I really take...William Edward Hickson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I formed in the village where I am now living, when I first went there, an evening class o...William Edward Hickson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Statement about juvenile offender: "attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school three years (same time). Learned to read and write. Ca...J.S. Life of NelsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Statement about juvenile offender: "attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school three years (same time). Learned to read and write. Ca...J.S. GilderoyPrint: Book
1800-1849Statement about juvenile offender: "attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school three years (same time). Learned to read and write. Ca...J.S. [story books]Print: Book
1800-1849Report of prison chaplain on the progress of prisoner: "From his first arrival in gaol, he had been attended by the schoolmaster; and one day, when I examined his prog...J.G. Child's First BookPrint: Book
1800-1849Wiliam Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 22 June 1817: 'By the bye, it was not till this morning that I read the case of Stuart versus Lovell. What a miscreant - If I had bee...William Wordsworth case of Stuart versus LovellUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-17 November 1792: 'I send the epitaph which at present is inscribed upon one of the cankerd sides. Perhaps the production ...Robert Southey Tombstone epitaphPrint: tomb
1800-1849Transcribed in letter from William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c.25 February 1818]: 'If money I lack The shirt on my back Shall off - and go to the hammer; F...William Wordsworth  Print: Handbill
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly concerned to see that the Liberty of the Press shoul...William Wordsworth Kendal ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly concerned to see that the Liberty of the Press shoul...William Wordsworth [French newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth describes his eldest son's slowness in reading to his brother Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1819: ' ... he is so long in finding his words in his...John Wordsworth dictionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I know little of Blackwood's Magazine, and wish to know less. I have seen in it articles so infamous that I do...William Wordsworth Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 7 April 1819: 'Having occasion to go to Sockbridge along with our Rector, Mr Jackson, I begged of Mr Lumb to meet us there. he did s...William Wordsworth [List of Applicants for Enfranchisement]Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 22 May [1819]: 'I have deferred thanking your Lordship for your kind attention in sending me (through the hands of Col: Lowther) the ...William Wordsworth Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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