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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK

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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	1"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason for knocking down Lord Steyne.'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...	F.W. Jowett	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...	Joseph Keating	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Serial / periodical
	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 Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book

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