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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' ... read a good deal from C Age - also some chapters in the Book of Cronicles [sic] ...'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Chronicles)Print: Book
1500-1599' A Jesuit reported on a Puritan meeting in the late 1580s: "Each of them had his own Bible, and sedulously turned the pages and looked up the texts cited by the preacher...Puritans The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945' Before starting on the march we attended a service in the Mission Church[...].[Hugh]Ruttledge read the first lesson and [E.O.]Shebbeare the second; it was impressive t...Hugh Ruttledge BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'"The choice of reading material [in ship's gaol] was either the [italics] Manual of Seamanship [end italics] or the Bible. Having been a freethinker for several years .....John Edward Needham The BiblePrint: 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
1900-1945'...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for authors killed in the war, at which Edmund Gosse read the ...Edmund Gosse LessonPrint: Book
1600-1699'...tell all most :11: a cloke: then I praied, read of the bible, dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'...[Hall Caine] told [Samuel] Norris that he had read the Bible through seven times, and Norris conceded that he could quote it in remarkable fashion.'Hall Caine The BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'12 verse. 4th chap: Paul to Timothy; this does strike my mind deeply; Let no man despite thy youth but be thou an example to the believers in word in conversation in cha...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'19th Psalm."John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'37th Psalm in evening!'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'5th day last - This evening William Foster read the 5th chap of Isaiah expressing his full belief that our Joseph would experience its truth, although the weapon should ...William Foster [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading the Bible'George Eliot [pseud.] 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
1800-1849'A chapter we read this morning tendered my spirit and raised it in aspirations to the God of my help. Describing by what a minister ought to prove himself a minister of ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]2 CorinthiansPrint: Book
1800-1849'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after some talk, he promised to send him a Bible, "his honou...Isaac [n/a]BiblePrint: 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
1850-1899'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really "that's me"!'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1700-1799'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book


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