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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
 
1850-1899Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 11 March 1851:

'How we work! and lift, and carry, and knock boxes open as if we were carpenters by trade; and...		Mary Taylor Charles DickensDavid Copperfield (instalments)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


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[Min] 4 The Sub...

George Burrow Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the last me...		Muriel Stevens Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one...Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...Patricia Beer Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna...questionaire respondent Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book


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