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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
 
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That the Muse visits his Slumbers & awakes & governs his So...William Blake Numbers 24:13Print: Book
1700-1799"I name Moses, Solomon, Esop, Homer, Plato". [Blake is referring to a selection of influential authors/characters from the Bible and classical literature]William Blake BiblePrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899"Do you think Job's birthday was the 29th of February 'As for that night let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into th...Robert Louis Stevenson BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Anne Grant to Miss Harriet Reid, April 28 1773: 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read any book but the Bible and Night Thoughts*; even th...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin New Testament
1700-1799Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of...Richard Solly BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of...Michael Solly BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are scattered throughout the book and consist mainly of...Stephen Solly BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'The Gospels were as familiar to me as the Lord's Prayer and the Catechism; almost too familiar, ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell New Testament GospelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have begun Latin, and I have gotten as far in the Grammar as "Propriae quae maribus"; I do...Edward Moulton-Barrett Latin BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Moulton-Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 October 1821: 'I read her [invalid Elizabeth Barrett's] prayers to her today in the bible, & she has altogether b...Mary Moulton-Barrett prayersPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 January 1828: 'I know very little Hebrew, & have indeed only read a few chapters in the original scriptures.' ...Elizabeth Barrett Hebrew scripturesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832: 'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis in Hebrew [...] As I knew the character[s] or some...Elizabeth Barrett GenesisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half wa...Elizabeth Barrett GenesisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers rea...Elizabeth Barrett Hebrew BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & ha...Elizabeth Barrett Biblia HebraicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have tried to follow your advice about the Bible, what part of the Bible do you like best? I like the Gospels. Do you know which of them is generally reckoned the best...Charles Darwin BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Reading list by Mary Shelley of Percy Shelley's reading in 1820. All texts are mentioned in journal entries so do not receive separate entries based on this list] 'Sh...Percy Bysshe Shelley New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been reading William James on this very point - the worth ...Mary Augusta Ward biblePrint: Book
1700-1799'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standing at the head of a juvenile class, who read the Shor...James Hogg Bible [Proverbs]Print: Book


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