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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'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [underlined] you wish me to read my dear Susan please to ...Elizabeth Marshall BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699Heere is the well where waters flow, To quench our heat of sinne, Heere is the tree where truth doth grow To lead our liues therein. Heere is the iudge that stintes...Susanna Beckwith The Bible, that is, etc. [Geneva Bible]Print: Book
1600-1699Eve Cohan is taken to church by her Christian music master to hear the organ; a New Testament is 'secretly conveyed to her' and 'she took great delight in reading in it',...Eve Cohan BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'Even while she spelled words and syllables, she spelled out Christ; for if she met with a free promise, or some good sentence, holding out Gods love to man, she would sa...Martha Hatfeild BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'il resolut de lire encore l'Evangile' (he resolved to read the Gospel again): is converted to Christianity and baptised in London.'Le Juif baptise' (The Baptised Jew) BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799When 8 or 9, 'my Father seeing I took Pleasure in learning my Book, he bestowed a Tutor on me ...' Reads Talmud etc. -- 'in all those Books, I made such Progress, that I ...Moses Marcus Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1600-1699'She spent much time in reading the Scripture, and a Book called The best friend in the worst of times ... Another Book that she was much delighted with, was Mr Swinnock'...Sarah Howley BiblePrint: Book
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1600-1699		She 'alledged many Scriptures, which she had never read, but only tumbling and tossing over the Bible ... Shee had a custome in tumbling over of the Bible, to put her fin...Joan Drake BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'a Bible lying near her, she took it up, and opened it in the presence of the Company, who observing what place it was openend at, they found it to be the seventeenth ...Sarah Bower GospelPrint: Book
1700-1799'I should have told you, in the first place, that the Eastern manners give us a great light into many Scripture passages, that appear odd to us, their phrases being commo...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'It is most wonderfully resembling [italics] The Song of Solomon [italics], which was also addressed to a royal bride.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Song of Songs (Old Testament)Print: 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. Old Testament (extracts)Print: 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. Gospels (extracts)Print: 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. Acts of the Apostles (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849'I was always given to strange scrupulous fancies, and not long before [leaving her first boarding school when aged almost thirteen] had made myself miserable, after read...Elizabeth Sewell Biblical story of JephthahPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings: 'After my father's death, the only reading, except the Bible, which, for weeks, she would listen t...Jane Sewell The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'It being Sunday, we read prayers from a Bible and a Prayer Book that were picked up on the field at Bhoodkhak. The service was scarcely finished when a clannish row comm...Florentia Sale Bible and Prayer BookPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whenever I read in St Paul's Epistle on justification by faith alone, my good mistress would read in the Epistle of St James, such passages as say that a man is not just...James Lackington BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I often privately took the Bible to bed with me, and in the long summer mornings read for hours together in bed'.James Lackington BiblePrint: 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


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