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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
 
1850-1899" It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive order one verse,in the early morning before breakfast....Edmund Gosse BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899" He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and these he had so magnificently bound in full morocco t...Edmund Gosse Greek New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of every opportunity that has offered itself of religious ...Amelia Opie ScripturesPrint: Book
1800-1849?The little Frys found the hours very long when they sat in the large, rather austere drawing-room, trying not to fidget, while their mother read aloud to them long chapt...Elizabeth Fry BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849"During the whole time of his [her father's] illness, Mrs Opie assiduously attended him; she had later joined the Quakers, and read to him much in the Bible and other rel...Amelia Opie Bible and other religious textsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m...Herbert Hodge New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how "divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an...Poor men of Chelmsford New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how 'divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an... New TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I th...Sarah Osborn Bible passagesPrint: Book
1600-1699"In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to t...Elizabeth Baker ScripturesUnknown
1850-1899'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...Vera Brittain The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Charlotte M. Yonge, apprehensive that mothers in the 1890s were paying insufficient attention to what their daughters got up to on Sundays, regretted that children were ...Young Lady Augustus Stanley and sister The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849" ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and their own teacher, used to read them: 'the Bible, the Ar...James Buchanan The BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness in it; for God never forsakes those who turn to him....Ellen Weeton ['Psalms']Print: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies Bible, thePrint: Book
1800-1849'Bedale Club, dined - ordered M'cleod's journal of the Alceste. Dispute at club as to spelling of experience. No one but Mr Monson and I supported the above mode but bot...Benjamin Newton biblePrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey BiblePrint: Book


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