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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
 
1850-1899'They used to read to each other when they had written so much. Their father never knew a word about it.'the Bronte sisters Bronte[works by all three sisters]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a literary artist & R.H. Robson summarised the message ...Charles Evans [works by and about Tolstoy]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a literary artist & R.H. Robson summarised the message ...Henry Marriage Wallis [works by and about Tolstoy]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a literary artist & R.H. Robson summarised the message ...Reginald Robson [works by and about Tolstoy]Print: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.

1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.

[...] 		Howard Smith unknown [works concerning the life of G. K Chesterton]Unknown
1850-1899'[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea...William Darwin [works in Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies William Shakespeare[works not reproduced in schoolbooks]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[works on music and acoustics]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'My silence on natural history & natural philosophy, arose from ignorance. they are subjects upon which till lately I kn...Robert Southey unknown[works on science]Print: Book
1850-1899'[…] I keep reading XVth Century […]'Robert Louis Stevenson various[works on the fifteenth century]Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, J...Thomas Carter James Arminius[works on theology and account of his life]Print: Book
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford [unknown][works on travel and antiquities]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than to anxiety or worry. I do not consciously worry abo... [unknown][works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he...Lennox Kerr William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, T...questionaire respondent William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1850-1899'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w...Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite...Allen Clarke William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f...Alfred Edgar Coppard William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing houseCharles Dickens[works]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, presumably Dickens's fiction and journals
1800-1849?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complete "Iliad" in English. Some of Shakespeare?s works ha...Samuel Bamford William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book


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