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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
 
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1700-1799"In the Fenwick Note to the Intimations Ode, W[ordsworth] recalled that at school 'I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah' ... the Hawkshead schoolboys regu...William Wordsworth The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninu...Elizabeth Barrett AnthologiaPrint: Book, Pamphlet
1800-1849They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Good Words for the YoungPrint: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes
1850-1899'Again and again I turned to something entitled "The Dark Journey", only to find it was an account of one's digestion. You may wonder why I did this more than once, but I...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Dark JourneyPrint: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes of a periodical
1850-1899'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but his school-fellows did, and all their gay activitie...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Henry MilnerPrint: Book
1800-1849I read parts of scripture with reference to the Calvinistic controversy, & little else today. I am going thro? all the epistles, marking with my pencil every expression ...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from Mrs. Martin. It is formed on the model of Clarissa ...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"...he...seized the Bible, and soon became absorbed in t...Barnholt Thomas Bible, The (Book of Esther)Print: Book
1850-1899'The question of conscience once arose when mother was reading "Jessica's First Prayer" aloud to Barnholt and me.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Jessica's First PrayerPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'How horrified my father was on discovering that the servants had been reading little bits to me out of "Lloyd's Weekly" [on a Sunday].'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lloyd's WeeklyPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'Molly Vivian The Misadventures at MargatePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I concluded that no one could really be as good as this book wanted and that it was a fearful waste of time.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Narrow WayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Among the treasures we rooted out...were an illustrated Prayer Book, gone quite brown with age and damp. When tired of reading we could get laughter out of its absurd pi...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes  Print: Book
1850-1899'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flow...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Cassell's Magazine provided stronger meat...and I think every word of it found some reader in the family.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Cassell's Family MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Getting on with Iphigenia [in Aulide] I am very much interested in it ? particularly in the scene between Iphigenia & her father. How much simple affectionate nature th...Elizabeth Barrett Iphigenia in AulidePrint: Book
1800-1849Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my partial habits of reading.Elizabeth Barrett HippolytusPrint: Book
1800-1849'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgri...mother of Joseph Wright New TestamentPrint: Book


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