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

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[Samuel?] Johnson

 

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[Samuel?] Johnson : [unknown]

'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's "Monk". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and ? up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson      Print: Book

 

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