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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
 
1700-1799None went to Church. Aunt gave us coffee. Mother read scriptures.Barbara Savile BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament'John Clare The New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599' A Jesuit reported on a Puritan meeting in the late 1580s: "Each of them had his own Bible, and sedulously turned the pages and looked up the texts cited by the preacher...Puritans The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great deal on credit for this world when he imagines that go...John Clare The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscious poem to our saviour very overstrained....'.John Clare 'the Song Solomon'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love'John Clare Epistle of St JohnPrint: Book
1850-1899'mother would summon me to her side and open an enormous Bible. It was invariably at the Old Testament, and I had to read aloud the strange doings of the Patriarchs. No c...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Bible (Old Testament), thePrint: Book
1800-1849Read, as I do every day, seven chapters of Scripture. My heart & mind are not affected by this exercise as they should be ? witness what I have written today. I would e...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me.Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799"In the Fenwick Note to the Intimations Ode, W[ordsworth] recalled that at school 'I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah' ... the Hawkshead schoolboys regu...William Wordsworth The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849I read parts of scripture with reference to the Calvinistic controversy, & little else today. I am going thro? all the epistles, marking with my pencil every expression ...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from Mrs. Martin. It is formed on the model of Clarissa ...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"...he...seized the Bible, and soon became absorbed in t...Barnholt Thomas Bible, The (Book of Esther)Print: Book
1800-1849'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgri...mother of Joseph Wright New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...father of Thomas Jones The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t...Mary ? The BiblePrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a street entertainer -a 'blind reader': "I was not born blind, but lost my sight four years ago, in consequence of an aneurism... At last I tho...anon GospelPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "I went to school to learn to write and cipher,...anon BiblePrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "...We often had ministers to dinner and supper...anon BiblePrint: Book


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