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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" ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] voluminously annotated a Bible for [William Augustus, Lord] Conway's mother."Hester Lynch Piozzi The BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses Edmund Law's annotations to family Bible, which includes both original and copied commentary, as well as glosses. Edmund Law The BiblePrint: 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'Sunday I dined with Captain Castle and did not go to Church but read the Bible at home.'William Richard Grahame BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New Testament the more impossible it seems to me to accept what is ordinarily called th...Mary Augusta Ward New TestamentPrint: Book
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
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699"Francis Bishop [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s], condemned to be shot, 'turned open the Bible' and read a passage enjoinin...Francis Bishop The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699"Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought upon' by his wife, 'whom God made the first Instrument...anon The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery Bible, thePrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Alexander Macneill BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Bible, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,-making "Harmonies", poring over the geography,greedily gathering up every thing I could fin...Harriet Martineau New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'With the Old Testament, I got on very well; but I was amazed at the difficulty with the New. I knew it to be of so much more value and importance than the Old, that I co...Harriet Martineau Old and New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me. However last night I was reading upon my favourite Job;...Thomas Carlyle Book of JobPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835: 'I read my Bible diligently every day'.Fanny Kemble The BiblePrint: Book
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1850-1899		'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of the Bible, I know not that I ever read any other bo...Thomas Carter The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the n...Elizabeth Goodman The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Every day [...] [Charlotte Mew] had to read a fixed number of pages from "Line Upon Line", a book which re-tells the Bible stories [for children]'.Charlotte Mew Line Upon LinePrint: Book


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