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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
 
1700-1799Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Some of Dr Clark's paraphras.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: 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
1700-1799Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'.Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight.Sarah Trimmer'Selections [from the Bible]'Print: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Go...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Sarah TrimmerAbridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Le...Print: 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
1800-1849'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmaster living in a back street in our native town to gi...Elizabeth Missing Sewell St MatthewMatthew 2:1Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday -- Jan. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno. Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley St MatthewGospelPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we tele...Alfred Tennyson St MatthewGospelPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".'George Bernard Shaw St PaulEpistlesPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews. I have taken this epistle for a particul...Elizabeth Missing Sewell St PaulEpistle to the HebrewsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'Oct. 6th. A. read me some Lucretius, and the 1st Epistle of St Peter. (At work on his new poem of "Lucretius.")'Alfred Tennyson St PeterFirst EpistlePrint: Book
1800-1849I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians. I am getting tired of this commentary. Such underground dark passages before you get at anything worth standing...Elizabeth Barrett St John ChrysostomCommentary on the EphesiansPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between St. Paul and the Corinthians, not to be found in ou...George Gordon Lord Byron St. Paul Epistles to CorinthiansPrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899'[Muir] recalls... that his father conducted a little service in the farmhouse each week: "Every Sunday night he gathered us together to read a chapter of the Bible and k...The Bible  Print: Book
1600-1699'So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him reading of the psalmes in short-hand (which he is now bu...Sir William Coventry Thomas CrossSternhold and Hopkins PsalmsPrint: Book


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