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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
 
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu...Mary Smith Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
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1850-1899		'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.Mary Smith Johann Gottlieb Fichte Print: Book
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1850-1899		'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.Mary Smith Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Print: Book
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1850-1899		'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.Mary Smith Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 George Eliot 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 Charlotte Bronte Print: Book
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Gravat: "I am in the news business; my son delivered me the watch-cases on Monday night, soon after he had found them I... Gravat  Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Dobree: "I am a pawnbroker: I took in this property of a witness who is here, Mary Brown, on the 5th of May; the next day ...Joseph Dobree  Print: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for burglary: John Monk: "I have for some years past supported myself by thieving... Waine came about twelve the next day. Percival was ther...John Monk  Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Mary Flint: "...in consequence of a handbill that I received I had the prisoners taken into custody..."Mary Flint  Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for burglary/ receiving stolen goods: Henry Ewer: "I am a shopman to Mr Dobree, Oxford-street... I found the watch answered to the descripti...Henry Ewer  Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for burglary: James Gideon: "On the 29th of October, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, the prisoner Chord came and offered a sm...James Gideon  Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for receiving stolen goods: Robert Daniel Liddell: "I am in Mr Marshall's employ. On the 10th of March he left me to bring these boxes home ...Robert Daniel Liddell  Print: Handbill, playbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: William Masters: "some time on the 26th of December, we received a handbill from Sir John Fielding, describing this wat...William Masters Sir John Fielding Print: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26th of December; I saw it in the shop between three an...John Brooks Sir John Fielding Print: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for forgery: William Moreland: "I saw the handbill that had been circulated, advertising that Mr Ryland had been suspected of forgery, and a...William Moreland  Print: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Allen: "I took the prisoners that night in Kingsland-road... in the morning a printer's boy came to me with a handbill, and I the... Allen  Print: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Thomas Brown: "I took an axe of Jones the same evening afterwards; that was on the Tuesday evening and on Wednesday the...Thomas Brown  Print: Handbill
1700-1799"In late Nov. 1795, W[ordsworth] wrote to [Francis] Wrangham: " ... we see only here a provincial weekly paper ..."William Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Butt: "On the 26th of August I took in two gravy spoons... Two days after...a handbill came in; I read it over, and thought...Henry Butt  Print: Handbill


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