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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
 
1600-1699"According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediately saw through his deception: she 'was so well versed...anon Sir Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaUnknown
1500-1599
1600-1699		"According to [James] Johnstoun, his supplement [to Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia] grew out of his affection for Sidney's romance. Having read the Arcadia over...James Johnstoun Sir Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under the shadow of the trees and read about the Centurion,...Alexander Somerville  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under the shadow of the trees and read about the Centurion,...Alexander Somerville  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled, "'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under the shadow of the trees and read about the Centurion,...Alexander Somerville  Print: Book
1800-1849"After waiting a considerable period for the remittance, the box was forced, and found to contain a vast quantity of brickbats and an odd volume of Johnson's 'Lives of th...John Bedford Leno Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"Alexander Somerville, a young farm-worker growing up in the Lammermuir Hills, made his first great journeys without leaving the fields in which he laboured: "'The next ...Alexander Somerville AnsonVoyage Round the WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, he read aloud to the family the novels of Dickens and...anon Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, he read aloud to the family the novels of Dickens and...anon George EliotnovelsPrint: Book
1700-1799"amused myself with looking over Cowley's Geometrical Plates - the different Problems of Euclid are drawn upon Pasteboard Paper & cut so that you may lift them up & see t...Mary Hamilton John Lodge Cowley?[An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid]Print: Book
"An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' (1845) identifies the pseudonymous author of the '... annotations in Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Fo...Manuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849
1850-1899		"An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' (1845) identifies the pseudonymous author of the '...anon LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'U...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the Life of Johnson] ... goes to some pains to record a...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey [Wesleyan magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey [battle histories]Print: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey LloydLloyd's Penny TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey William CobbettWorksPrint: Book


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