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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
 
1900-1945'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe...Emrys Daniel Hughes John Richard Green Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read more o...John Wilson Croker John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read more o...John Wilson Croker Walter Scott Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 'Sunday night, 13th April [1810]': 'When I saw the advertisement [for house at Watermillock] in the papers I thought of you: but inst...Dorothy Wordsworth  Print: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson Emily Bronte Print: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson Victor Hugo Print: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson John Richard Green Print: Book
1900-1945'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: "Then one could look at life and af...Jack Lawson Karl Marx Print: Book
1900-1945'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: "Then one could look at life and af...Jack Lawson Lewis Carroll Print: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact....Alice Foley Karl Marx Print: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact....Alice Foley William Morris Print: Book
1900-1945'[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic ta...Chaim Lewis Robert Herrick Print: Book
1900-1945'[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic ta...Chaim Lewis Charles Lamb Print: Book
1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st...Chaim Lewis Leo Tolstoy Print: Book
1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st...Chaim Lewis Fyodor Dostoevsky Print: Book
1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st...Chaim Lewis Ivan Turgenev Print: Book
1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st...Chaim Lewis Alexander Pushkin Print: Book


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