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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[Marginalia]: 3 pages of ms notes (pencil) on binding pages in form of references giving Book, chapter /verse and a short note on content eg 'Exodus ... 14 ... bees'. The... The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and t...Print: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's extensive 1819-20 annotations to The Imperial Family Bible, lent to her by its owner, Mrs Susanna Rudd. Hester Lynch Piozzi The Imperial Family BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor - and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments are none of the newest.'Walter Scott Samuel FooteThe Maid of BathUnknown
1850-1899'You asked me about the ''Message of Israel''. I believe no books now affect me any more than by a transient interest. It did draw my attention to some sublime bits in th...Emma Darwin Julia WedgwoodThe Message of Israel in the Light of Modern Criti...Print: Book
1800-1849'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament'John Clare The New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849"I go on Merrily with my Greek & Latin; am very sorry that I did not begin to learn languages early in life as I find it very Easy; am now learning my Hebrew [ABC]. I rea...William Blake The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'The commanding officer, a timid, fragile man, gave me (as his way was) a pocket Testament bound in green suède, with coloured pictures. It went with me always, mainly un...Edmund Blunden The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I was watching the columns of earth and smoke, there was suddenly a whirring sound and a piece of iron plonked into the mud at my feet, where it lay sizzling. It was ...Hugo Armitage The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'We were too busy at the counter to join ... the [church] service, but once I worked down in a lull and talked a bit to one lad who was quitely reading his Testament; but... The New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am no judge of his 'new renderings'; but the stile both...Thomas Carlyle William ThomsonThe New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vo...Print: Book
1700-1799'I finished Prideaux's "Connection of the Old and New Testament" history.'Joseph Hunter Humphrey PrideauxThe Old and New Testament ConnectedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek n/aThe Song of SolomonPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		''The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrape...Gabriel Harvey Solomon The Song of SongsPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'Katherine Mansfield The story of Jonah and the WhalePrint: Book
1800-1849?They [wife and child] had been at prayers, and were reading the Testament before retiring to rest?. Samuel Bamford's wife and child [n/a]The TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Tobit aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]TobitPrint: Book
1700-1799'And here I may add, that from the time I came from school, I read little, save religious books; and after I appeared in ministry, until late in life, reading even then w...Catherine Payton Phillips unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'But these extraordinary accounts and discourses, together with the controversies between the mother and sons, made me think that they know many matters of which I was to...James Lackington unknownvariousUnknown
1900-1945'I read about one book per day.'John H.S. Craig variousvariousPrint: Advertisement, Book, Form, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster, Serial / periodical, Unknown


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